Programming Languages A programming language is a set of English-like instructions that includes a set of rules for putting the instructions together to create commands. A translator changes the English-like commands into numeric code that the computer can understand. The most common type of...

Choosing a viable specialty Specialization in a couple of programming languages is a good career choice. Software developers have a wide variety of specialties to choose from. The various specialties can be categorized by; programming language, operating systems, government, business, non-profit,...

History of CC++ In 1966, Christopher Strachey assembled a collection of working papers on a language called CPL (Combined Programming Language). It was never actual implemented, but was used basically to study the theory of programming languages. In 1969, Martin Richards took many of the concepts f...

Living in an age of technology, the world is constantly coming up with new ways to make our lives easier (or sometimes more complex depending on how you look at it). Now with the help of the open source community, programming languages are blossoming from a small idea of a lonely programmer. Perl, a...