News about programming language
  • Perl creator hints at imminent Perl 6 release

    In his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally be released soon. He also ruminated about the effect that Perl 6 would have, once it is released.

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    Google Go captures developers' imaginations

    Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages.

  • New Groovy cozies up to Java, SQL

    The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language's developers note.

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    Microsoft's top developers prefer old-school coding methods

    Microsoft has done more to popularize graphical programming than any other vendor. The company's development tools, led by Visual Basic and Visual Studio, have been used by millions of software developers over the past two decades.

  • Microsoft extends access to C#, CLI

    Microsoft is extending its "Community Promise" patent licensing to C# programs and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), enabling open source usage of the technologies without fear of any reprisals.

Features about programming language
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    Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss

    Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. "Mature" programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day. Today's software development tools automatically perform complex functions that programmers once had to write explicitly. And most developers are glad of it!

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