A programming language is designed to describe a set of consecutive actions executed by a computer. A programming language is, therefore, a practical way for us humans to give instructions to a ...

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The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

In systems with multiple processors and multiple cores some developers are now using functional programming languages like Haskell, Erlang and Scala. Neal Ford, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ...

After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha -- version 0.1 -- of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes ...