This old programming language is suddenly hot again. But its future is still far from certain One of the oldest coding languages is going through something of a renaissance.

With AI's rise, effective communication in English is now vital for programming, shifting focus from coding syntax to clarity and context.

Every other programming language has to grapple with how HTML has redefined computing over the past 30-plus years. So many “pure” programming languages automate the production of more and more ...

In the 1950s and ’60s you generally used machine language, which had commands like “sal 665” and “sal 667.” (Those tell the computer to move its accumulator, a crucial region of memory ...

Programming languages and tools are built around assumptions about natural-language skills — in particular, that users can read and write in English.

A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

Here's how the AI chatbots of tomorrow are shaping the field computer programming today.

A visitor to the UAE is trying to promote a new computer language he developed to identify Arabic as a programming language.

A high-level programming language is easy for coders to work with because it is far more abstract than how computers need to process commands – purely in terms of binary code (1s and 0s).