AI’s Memorization Crisis

O n Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular ...

5 big questions about IU in 2026, from football to free speech

Can IU house all the students its admitting? Can it restore its free speech reputations? Five questions for the state's ...
InfoWorld

8 old programming languages developers won’t quit

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
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Unraveling the Evolution: A History of Computer Programming Languages

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...
Frontiers

Design and application of teaching cases based on heuristic teaching in C programming language curriculums—taking the loop structure for an example

C programming is a general-purpose, processor-oriented, and powerful language, widely used in various daily life applications. As a prerequisite for many core courses in computer science and ...
acm.org

The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...
ZDNet

Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...
Wired

Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...
snhu

5 Computer Science Languages to Learn

When you're writing code, you're laying out instructions on what you'd like to see on the app you're building or the website you're designing. But there are a number of coding languages to choose from ...
The New York Times

Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...
ZDNet

If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...