If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

The IT consulting firm Tiobe has named C# the programming language of the year 2025 in the controversial Tiobe Index. Tiobe analyzes the twenty most popular programming languages on the web monthly ...

Ada, a 45-year-old programming language, might just solve the very problems developers have been grappling with for years. I realise that for many developers – particularly those who entered the ...

Abstract: The Ada programming language, while not deemed as a mainstream choice for daily software applications, still plays a vital role in security-critical systems. Understanding how the source ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025. The sudden return of this old-timer has developers debating whether it’s a ...

Quentin Ochem, chief product and revenue officer, AdaCore (Image: AdaCore) AdaCore plans to merge with an application security testing company backed by the same venture capital fund to boost its ...

This article will introduce the concepts and topics common to all programming languages that beginners and experts must know! Do you want to learn a programming language for the first time? Do you ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to ...