For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Who are you and what do you do in the School? I am a Reader in Digital Media and a member of the Centre for Digital Music. I have a PhD in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania and an ...

Zoom:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98021030606. Passcode is CU Boulder ZIP code (one that ends in 9). Now let’s extend this analogy to programs and programming ...

Researchers have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages. The work may be of ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Kevin Maney is a best-selling author, award-winning columnist, and musician still waiting for his big break. Writing code is a terrible way for humans to instruct computers. Lucky for us, new ...

Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...