It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, BASIC sent a shock wave through teenage tech culture.

By the time I learned Objective-C, NeXT hadn’t existed for over 15 years, but code from its NeXTSTEP operating system was so ingrained in Apple’s products that its prefix appeared in dozens of ...

The concept really became well known with the publication of The C Programming Language in 1978.

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.

The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers ...