Most programmers typically know and use a number of different languages but usually have a bias towards a certain set based on a variety of personal, external, and historical factors.

The meatiest part of the infographic is the comparison of programming languages, which charts the creator of a particular language, its primary uses, and who uses the language.

Finally, the article shows how the idea of a universal language was a decisive step in the emergence of programming languages, in the recognition of computer programming as a proper field of knowledge ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

In Programming Languages research, we explore the ways in which computations are expressed in written form. Our research focuses on three central ideas: the semantics of a particular piece of program ...

Banks and financial companies are desperate to find programmers who know COBOL, an almost 60-year old programming language that is still in full effect.

Only twice in TIOBE Programming Index history has a language commanded such a high percentage of developers’ interest.

One of the biggest programming languages has dropped out of the top three, according to one of the lists used to track coders' favourites.