The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language. Wikimedia Commons Gosling invented Java while working at Sun Microsystems, a pioneering technology company that Oracle purchased in 2010.

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.