Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom. It wasn't a programming language in the modern sense ...

While linguistics examines conveyance, processing, and the evolution of natural languages, computer science applies the same questions to programming.

It's especially useful for language designers to think about where the evolution of programming languages is likely to lead, because they can steer accordingly.

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

The idea that learning and using certain computer languages can influence how people solve problems resonates with the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which holds that spoken languages differ in ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.