C - invented by Dennis Ritchie in the early 1970s, C is a compiled language. Other languages (like PHP, Python, etc.) take advantage of C's libraries so they can interact with the operating system ...

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

SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, died Saturday at the age of 70, according to his longtime employer. Mr. Ritchie created the popular C programming language and ...

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 ...

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.