I've got 40 years C experience, mostly with device drivers and OS internals (helped port Linux to the SH-4 back in 2000). I retired a few years back (thank you Qualcomm), and learned Java to scratch ...

Java is not the language it used to be, and that is mostly a good thing. Here are eleven ways Java is evolving to meet the challenges of the future. Is Java ancient yet? The kind of programming ...

Before 1995, software was very often built with C and C++. These are not idiot-proof programming languages. It’s possible—easy even—to really muck things up at very low levels within a computer, such ...