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

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?

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 ...

Research conclusions could inform the design of new programming languages, coding environments and coding styles, and improve understanding of the role of programming and software in science.

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 ...

Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital ...

This Computer Language Is Feeding Hacker Values Into Young Minds At 10, Scratch is a popular tool to teach kids programming.

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

The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symbolical language ...