A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

I have been at Queen Mary since 2011. Within C4DM, I lead the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, a research team focused on music and human-computer interaction, especially the design and evaluation of ...

The idea that learning and using certain computer languages can influence how people solve problems resonates with the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which holds that spoken languages differ in ...

The formal study of computer programs as mathematical objects predates the invention of the modern computer itself, and continues to this day under the aegis of Programming Languages and Formal ...

Over time, from the development of assembly language through more human-readable languages like C and Python and Java, programming has climbed what computer scientists call increasing levels of ...

In doing so, he also successfully addressed a special aspect of the programming language: "The so-called 'type safety' goes hand in hand with the fact that Rust imposes restrictions on the ...

The focus of the course is the rigorous analysis of programming languages. Where COMP_SCI 321 looks at languages through the lens of interpreter-based implementation, this course strips the languages ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.

Learn about and revise programming languages with this BBC Bitesize Computer Science AQA study guide.

Language is one of the central metaphors around which the discipline of computer science has been built. The language metaphor entered modern computing as part of a cybernetic discourse, but during ...