If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer ...

In addition to C, the pioneering computer scientist made significant contributions to Unix and received many awards honoring his work. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

Why do some programming languages take over the world while others wallow in obscurity? Two academics at Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley are combing through mountains of data ...

How do I learn the C programming language on my Apple Mac? The C programming language has been around since the 1970s, but it has never gone out of style, and learning C is one of the best computer ...

I looked at the TIOBE index today, as I do every so often, as most of the software pros I know do every so often. It purports to measure the popularity of the world’s programming languages, and its ...

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? Credit...Joseph C. Towler, Jr. Supported by By Clive Thompson As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s, Mary ...