Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

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 ...

Abstract: Domain-specific programming languages such as P4 enable flexible and high-performance packet processing for programming network data planes. However, many P4 programs remain monolithic, ...

In this text we’ll talk about syntax and semantics, so it’s important that we understand what these terms mean, particularly in the context of computer programming. In a (natural) language course—say ...

ZPSR is a simple, Python-like programming language with a twist: it uses the Russian keyboard layout. This project was created by a developer from Ukraine as an experiment in alternative syntax and ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

If I told you that AI was going to make humans redundant and cause widespread unemployment, you’d probably think that’s a bad thing, right? But what if the reality is that it’s going to make work ...

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At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.