One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of commands ...

Elon Musk says programming may soon become obsolete. For mechanical engineers, the bigger question is how AI will reshape ...

Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language – but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that. This is not the first time that the Reg FOSS desk has been bamboozled by ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… Artificial intelligence ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on GitHub. Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Microsoft recently decided to rewrite the TypeScript tool chain using Go. This has caused a stir as folks wonder why Microsoft chose the Go language instead of their own C# or even TypeScript itself.

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic. is a news writer focused on ...