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6 reasons interactive Python is a game-changer for me

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...
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‘Futuristic’ Unison functional language debuts

Functional language based on ‘content-addressed code’ promises to simplify distributed programming and eliminate builds and ...

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. University of Utah researchers found a rare 1973 UNIX tape in storage. The tape may reveal ...