Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

The December TIOBE index shows some interesting shifts in the popularity of programming languages. Particularly striking is ...