(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Programming has become essential for looking at large datasets, and the R language is particularly useful for statistical analysis. With the R Programming Language Compiler app, you can now test and ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas Kurtz (center) go over a program with a Dartmouth student Early in BASIC's history, its creators, John Kemeny (left) and Thomas ...

Earlier this year, Apple, Inc. promised to make its Swift programming language open source, and now that promise has come to fruition. Today, Apple released the first version of the Swift compiler and ...

As if tracking down bugs in a complex application isn’t difficult enough, programmers now must worry about a newly emerging and potentially dangerous trap, one in which a program compiler simply ...

Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a steady ...