Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

This video is part of Electronic Design's 70th Anniversary series. This is a bit like Mel Brooks History of the World, Part I for programmers. I've been writing a number of articles and recording ...

A pair of pioneering computer scientists — who met at Princeton University and forged their friendship at the legendary Bell Labs in New Jersey — were named the winners of the equivalent of the Nobel ...

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. By Cade Metz Tony Brooker, the mathematician ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

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In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to ...