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Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89

Ryan Daws — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:56:53 +0000

In a sombre start to the new year, the world of computer science mourns the loss of Niklaus Wirth—a stalwart figure known for his influential contributions to programming languages, methodology, software engineering, and hardware design. Born on 15 February 1934 in Switzerland, Wirth was a luminary in the field and celebrated for his development of... Read more »

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Programming language Julia makes TIOBE Index top 20 debut

Ryan Daws — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:51:42 +0000

Programming language Julia has secured its place in the coveted TIOBE Index top 20 for the first time. The historic achievement marks a major milestone for Julia, a programming language that has been in existence for just over a decade. Known for its applications in data science and mathematical computation, Julia’s inclusion in the top... Read more »

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Go re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 programming languages

Ryan Daws — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:32:31 +0000

Programming language Go appears to be making a resurgence as it re-enters TIOBE’s top 10 list. TIOBE creates its programming language popularity list using search data across 25 different engines. The methodology has been regularly criticised but suffices as a rough guide of the interest in each language. Go was created by Google and often... Read more »

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‘Most loved’ programming language Rust now has its own foundation

Ryan Daws — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:57:35 +0000

Rust, the world’s “most loved” programming language, now has its own independent foundation. The language was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research and has ranked “most loved” in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey for the past five years. In a blog post, the Rust Foundation wrote: “Mozilla, the original home of the Rust... Read more »

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O’Reilly: Python leads languages, React for web development, and ML/AI interest grows

Ryan Daws — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:06:47 +0000

Education giant O’Reilly has released data about its online platform which highlights some interesting software development trends. The headline finding is that Python continues to be the programming language with the most interest. Given the growth in topics relating to Python such as AI – and the language often considered the best to pick up... Read more »

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Brain activity while coding differs from processing language or doing maths

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:35:31 +0000

Neuroscientists from MIT have discovered that brain activity while coding differs from processing language or doing mathematics. Coding is often likened to learning a new foreign language—and there are certainly many similarities. To the brain itself, however, it seems to be quite different. The researchers took fMRI brain scans of young adults taking part in... Read more »

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TIOBE Index July: Programming language R climbs up the rankings

Ryan Daws — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:03:30 +0000

The July 2020 edition of the TIOBE Index reveals an interesting climb in the popularity of programming language R. R is a statistical language which notably crashed out of the top 20 in TIOBE’s Index for the first time in three years in May. “A possible reason for this is that statistical programming is finding... Read more »

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Research: Interest in COBOL surges like it’s the 60s

Ryan Daws — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:57:38 +0000

Research from job site Indeed has shown a surge in interest for the COBOL programming language. COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was first created in 1959 and usage of the language has dwindled over years. Today, you’ll only really find the language used by businesses for sexy things like processing forms and payments systems. Indeed’s... Read more »

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