This dying programming language powers global infrastructure — and it's a problem

A 66-year-old programming language still handles most ATM and in-store card transactions, but few engineers know how to keep ...
fedtechmagazine.com

How COBOL Became the Early Backbone of Federal Computing

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...
Analytics Insight

5 Early Programming Languages Still Powering the Internet

Overview Built for systems programming, C remains deeply embedded in operating systems, networking and performance-critical ...
Wired

The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech

Whether you run IT for a massive organization or simply own a smartphone, you're intimately familiar with the unending stream of software updates that constantly need to be installed because of bugs ...
techtarget

A quick glance at the history of C programming languages

In an era with other available general-purpose programming languages, such as Java, Python and Ruby, C and its various .NET relatives remain important languages for developers. Despite its age, ...
LWN.net

The Koka programming language

Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a program is intended to manipulate, and the values it actually manipulates. While there have been many ...
XDA Developers

How MCP accidentally became the best “common language” for services to talk

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...