Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

The creation of the C programming language was a massive milestone for classical computing. Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s, C was an easy ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” opens “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. The passage referred to the French Revolution, but today it could refer to the revolution ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

A quantum computing startup called Quantum Machines has released a new programming language called QUA. The language runs on the startup’s proprietary Quantum Orchestration Platform. Quantum Machines ...

Shanghai-based start-up and researchers unveil platform to turn complex emergent field of computer science into mass-accessible technology Quantum computing has long carried an aura of exclusivity, ...

For the rest of the history of modern programming languages -- because C was really just the beginning! -- check out the infographic below. You can click it to zoom in.

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.