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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Google announced the first stable release of its new programming language -- dubbed "Go" -- on Wednesday, providing an initial base of support for new projects and applications. Binaries have been released for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X.
By Jon Gold | 30 March, 2012 08:22
In his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally be released soon. He also ruminated about the effect that Perl 6 would have, once it is released.
By Joab Jackson | 23 July, 2010 19:59
Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages.
By Juan Carlos Perez | 01 March, 2010 07:50
The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language's developers note.
By Joab Jackson | 07 January, 2010 07:45
Microsoft has done more to popularize graphical programming than any other vendor. The company's development tools, led by Visual Basic and Visual Studio, have been used by millions of software developers over the past two decades.
By Eric Lai | 27 November, 2009 22:25
Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. "Mature" programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day. Today's software development tools automatically perform complex functions that programmers once had to write explicitly. And most developers are glad of it!
By Esther Schindler | 30 April, 2009 09:52
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