We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie wasn’t as famous as Steve Jobs, but his contributions to technology are at least as mammoth. Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs confirmed today that Ritchie died October 8th.

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How do I learn the C programming language on my Apple Mac? The C programming language has been around since the 1970s, but it has never gone out of style, and learning C is one of the best computer ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

In addition to C, the pioneering computer scientist made significant contributions to Unix and received many awards honoring his work. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...