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Its Time for a New Programming Language

Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…

The Next 7000 Programming Languages

Landin’s seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast programming languages in a Darwinian ‘tree of life’ and explore languages, their features (genes) and language evolution from the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest’.

On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge. Grey Room 2005; (18): 26–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/1526381043320741

Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?

The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey

Why AI conquered software first, and what that tells us about which industries are next.

Random Tech Thoughts

This article is about standardisation, particularly how it relates to understanding code.  I’ll first go into an historical example that highlights the lack of standardisation in an area where we take it for granted today.  After that I’ll get into code, and how understanding code is like understanding data via visualisations.  In both the historic … Continue reading Standardisation and code

Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.

Addressing Accessibility Barriers in Programming for People with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review

Accessibility issues with programming languages and programming environments pose a major barrier for students with visual impairments to participate in computing related courses as well as threatens the productivity of professional programmers with visual impairments. To remedy this, the past two decades have witnessed an increase in accessibility research designed to investigate and address the challenges faced by people with visual impairments while programming or learning how to program. We conducted a literature review of accessibility research in this domain. The aim was to identify, aggregate, and highlight known accessibility barriers to programming faced by professional programmers and students with visual impairments learning how to code as well as to identify all solutions that have been proposed to address these barriers. We selected and analyzed 70 papers reporting on accessibility of programming and programming environments for people with visual impairments. Numerous barriers to programming by people with visual impairments have been identified in the literature. Some of these barriers are understudied and present opportunities for future work. A lot of studies have also proposed tools and new accessible programming languages to address the accessibility issues of current programming languages and programming environments.

Visual Studio Code - The open source AI code editor

Visual Studio Code redefines AI-powered coding with GitHub Copilot for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming

Graphics researchers waiting in the water fountain line at SIGGRAPH Yellowstone. Computer graphics as a field is broad, deep, complex, and intimidating. More than half a century of rapid progress driven by academic research and industry practices underly it. Parts delve pretty far into physics, math, signal processing, systems programming (and more). And performance is always at a premium—so simple, straightforward techniques are often not possible, and high-level programming abstractions not usable.

41 Years of Microsoft Windows Design History - 88 Images - Version Museum

A comprehensive visual history of Microsoft Windows from 1985 to 2026. See a gallery of the Microsoft Windows evolution from the beginning to present day.

The APL Programming Language Source Code

Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. What eventually became APL was first a mathematical notation, not as a computer programming language.

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers — Senko Rašić

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...