The creator of the world's most popular programming language goes into retirement.

Python creator Guido van Rossum reveals the strengths and weaknesses of one of the world's most popular programming languages.

The story begins in 1979 when Bjarne was conducting research at Bell Labs, primarily using C language. C language is powerful, but Bjarne felt it was "too hardcore"; managing complexity in large ...

Pioneering computer scientist Dennis Ritchie passed away yesterday at age 70 after battling a long running illness. Ritchie was better known as a co-creator of Unix, but ...

Chris Lattner, the creator of and project lead for Apple’s Swift programming language, today announced in a mailing list email that he will be leaving Apple later this month. He will be joining ...

New programming language Mojo is now on the Mac, bringing Python-like tools specifically for AI developers.

Programming languages are important because they are the tools that developers use to create software, applications, and websites. Different programming languages have their own syntax, structure ...

Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), ...

Compared to the versions that are hacked together late at night under insane deadline pressure, the programming languages to come out of academia are failures. Well, not all of them. History can ...