Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you ...

Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

Coding is a facet of computer programming, a process used to write instructions for what a computer, application, or software ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

What is Purebasic for Mac? Purebasic for Mac is a native 32-bit and 64-bit BASIC compiler specifically designed for macOS. It combines the simplicity of the BASIC programming language with the ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ecosystem ...

Tamper detection devices, commonly built around switches and sensors, employ several techniques according to design specifications and operating environments. T. K. Hareendran examines several ...