Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?

These new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier.

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom. It wasn't a programming language in the modern sense ...

While linguistics examines conveyance, processing, and the evolution of natural languages, computer science applies the same questions to programming.