If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python. C++ has surpassed Java and may soon eclipse ...

In addition to C, the pioneering computer scientist made significant contributions to Unix and received many awards honoring his work. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever. The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe ...

TIOBE Programming Language Index News (September 2024): C Loses Its Crown Your email has been sent Although C is still a powerhouse programming language, C’s difficulty with large-scale projects ...

We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it's written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159-1989, or ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...