While an engineering student at Jadavpur University in West Bengal, India, Rajat Taneja studied the complicated scientific computer language known as Fortran. Released in the late 1950s, it is the ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

As one of the oldest programming languages still in common use today, and essential for the first wave of Artificial Intelligence research during the 1950s and 60s, Lisp is often the focus of ...