The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

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

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It’s all Greek to me. That might be someone’s reaction to trying to understand computer programming language such as JavaScript or Python. So why shouldn’t it be considered a foreign ...

Scratch Day is a global network of events that celebrates Scratch, a computer language that helps young people with simple programming to create interactive stories, games, animation and musical ...

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Microsoft looks to the future with the upcoming release of its own quantum computing programming language.

Designing a programming language is all about tradeoffs — between what’s easier for the programmer and what best suits the machine.