Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical systems proves these “dinosaurs” are here to stay. While Python isn’t fast, ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Keep your remote controls handy. Starting Saturday, the television station in Atlanta airing CBS programming will switch from Channel 46 (WANF-TV) to Channel 69 (WUPA). The switch marks the first time ...

In a move to globalise Egyptian media and enhance cultural ties, Egypt’s National Media Authority has announced the production of new television programmes in 23 different languages, including several ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

What are those strange symbols My Chemical Romance are using? And how do you actually create your own language? To find out, we met font whiz Nate Piekos to get the lowdown on how he and Gerard Way ...

Language is one of the oldest and most influential methods used by humans to connect generations through culture, tradition, and identity. Many languages have vanished through time, yet a select few ...