A 37-year-old compiler is gaining support for a new language… although as that language is 57 years old, we are possibly stretching the adjective "new" more than our post-holiday waistband.… An ...

Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you usually think of FORTRAN and COBOL. You should also think of LISP. But only a ...

Programming languages definitely go out of style, but they rarely die. They can linger long past their heyday, because like a train conductor’s ticket punch, they fill a niche better than any ...