While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

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 ...

A Tamil Nadu minister has ignited a language controversy by suggesting that mantras during rituals and pujas should be recited in Tamil instead of Sanskrit. The minister questioned the allocation of ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

CUDA enables faster AI processing by allowing simultaneous calculations, giving Nvidia a market lead. Nvidia's CUDA platform is the foundation of many GPU-accelerated applications, attracting ...

As modern .NET applications grow increasingly reliant on concurrency to deliver responsive, scalable experiences, mastering asynchronous and parallel programming has become essential for every serious ...

Beginning this fall, Yale students will no longer be able to waive a prerequisite course for “Data Systems and Programming Techniques,” or CPSC 2230, via an exam. Instead, all students wishing to take ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

At a Computer Science Education Seminar talk Thursday, C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup shared his thoughts on the role of C++ and what needs fixing in programming education. C++, a programming language ...