As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

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For his doctoral thesis, in which Jung established the first formal foundations for safe systems programming in Rust, he has now received several internationally renowned awards. Ralf Jung is a ...

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language---a new way of designing, building, and running computer software---and he didn't mention it to anyone, not even his closest ...

Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn’t want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster ...

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