Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, "esolangs" serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.

To revisit the terminology of computer language design: in a functional language, you can add new functions without touching existing ones, but adding new data types means rewriting existing ...

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?

HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, has recently co-written a book on the new computer language Go. Over his career, Kernighan has co-written some of the most influential books for ...

Researchers have successfully applied a computer-based natural language processing model to protein research.