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 ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

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.

Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF: 701K), which plots over 50 programming languages on a ...

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.

"Join Mark on a quick-fire, whistle-stop, shallow-to-the-point-of-vacuous tour through the history of programming and programming languages, from the surprise twist at the beginning, through the ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during ...

John also proposed shared computing in 1958. In 1967, I took a class in the history of programming languages from Saul Rosen using his thick textbook Programming Systems and Languages.