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• The A-Z of programming languages: From Pizza to Scala

  Techworld Australia recently caught up with Martin Odersky to talk about the creation of Scala; the programming language created in a Web 1.0 world but ended up being used to run Twitter.

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: Shakespeare

  Computerworld Australia recently caught up with the Swedish creators of the Shakespeare Programming Language. Jon Aslund and Karl Wiberg, took the time to give us the low-down on what motivated them to create an esoteric programming language in the space of almost one night, the challenges they faced in its creation, and where they see programming languages heading in coming years.

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  The A to Z of programming languages: Objective-C

  Computerworld Australia is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Here, we talk to the co-creator of the one of today's most popular programming languages: Objective-C.

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  The A-Z of Programming Languages: MATLAB

  What prompted the development of MATLAB?

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  An interview with ColdFusion co-creator Jeremy Allaire

  As part of our series of investigations into interesting programming languages Computerworld talks to one of the creators of web development tool, ColdFusion – Jeremy Allaire.

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  The A-Z of Programming Languages: Arduino's Tom Igoe

  Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. This time around we speak with Arduino's Tom Igoe.

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  An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL

  Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, who developed F#, Simon Peyton-Jones on the development of Haskell, Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experiences maintaining Bash, Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame and Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth.

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  COBOL turns 50

  When you find yourself standing in front of an ATM waiting for cash, spare a thought for the programming language that powers it all. Common Business-Oriented Language — widely known as COBOL — has turned 50, but, far from being a dinosaur, it still plays a pivotal role in running most of the world’s businesses and public services.

• The A-Z of Programming Languages: D

  In this interview, we chat to Walter Bright about D and his aim to improve on C++. According to his home page, Bright was trained as a mechanical engineer, and has worked for Boeing on the 757 stabilizer trim system. Ever since this experience however, he has been writing software, and has a particular interest in compilers.