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

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming lang… ...

Programming languages: Why this old favorite is on the rise again A long-standing coding choice has seen an unexpected rise in popularity, according to one tracker of programming languages.

C++ programming language and safety: Here's where it goes next There's been a shift towards 'memory safe' languages. So, can updates to C++ help it catch up in the eyes of developers?

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) have emerged as a transformative tool for expressing complex statistical models and automating inference procedures.

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