Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

In this week’s story, Cobol: Not Dead Yet, I wrote that Cobol is “…a procedural language in an object-oriented world.” The folks at MIcro Focus point out that, technically, this is no longer the case.

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...