A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with ...

Lisp is one of those interesting computer languages that you either love or hate. But it has certainly stood the test of time. Of all the ancient languages that are still in practical use, only ...

On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status ...

Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

John McCarthy, best known for coining the term artificial intelligence and inventing the programming language Lisp, died on Oct. 23. He was 84 years old. His death was announced by Stanford University ...

New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. Rust came about because ...