Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts him right ...

A 37-year-old compiler is gaining support for a new language… although as that language is 57 years old, we are possibly stretching the adjective "new" more than our post-holiday waistband.… An ...

Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you usually think of FORTRAN and COBOL. You should also think of LISP. But only a ...