If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

One of the software industry's leading lights gave his take on the foundational programming language that he created ...

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 languages ...

Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type system ...

" let's have a language that makes it easy to leverage popular libraries regardless of how they're implemented. Load a Python module, a JavaScript/Node module, a Java package, a .NET assembly, and a C ...