Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

NEW: The talk from CCS'18 presentation is available here. BOPC (stands for BOP Compiler) is a tool for automatically synthesizing arbitrary, Turing-complete, Data-Only payloads. BOPC finds execution ...

Neither an art nor a science, writing software is more akin to carpentry or watchmaking. We’re going to miss it.

In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

COBOL is in the headlines again, and this time it is because of artificial intelligence (AI) – sparking conversations with tools emerging that claim t.

IBM’s Software and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, wrote in a Monday blog post that translating COBOL code isn’t equivalent to modernizing enterprise syst ...

Abstract: Context: The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) technology presents an opportunity to enhance students' learning experience in programming courses using pair programming. GenAI can take the ...

There's more to the story than the alphabet.

This is Cf, an in-progress compiler that forms a minimal programming language meant to be written in French and with C-like syntax. In the future, the intention is to integrate some nicer, Python-like ...