This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code.

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example, Fortran, among the oldest of computer languages, still has adherents, not to mention a ton of legacy co… ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article describes the design of a framework for sound synthesis in LC, a new computer music language we prototyped, together with ...

An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published ...