The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

As a result, Google, Yahoo and Spotify are reaping the benefits. The infographic below outlines the history of programming languages in greater detail. This infographic originally appeared on Veracode ...

Programming language C might be 48 years old, but it's still hugely relevant for developers today and, by one measure, still more popular than Python.

C++ overtook C in the top three of the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index this month, a significant shakeup following gradual growth of C++ and gradual decline of C over the last year.