ZDNet

Programming language popularity: Apple's Objective-C tumbles down the rankings

Developers started turning away from Objective-C years ago, thanks to the Swift language, Apple's replacement for Objective-C. But now that shift is finally being reflected in the Tiobe programming ...
acm.org

Let’s Be Objective about Large Language Models

1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage, not only in the artificial ...
Wired

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...
Frontiers

The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia

A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Self-Assessment versus Objective Proficiency Evaluation in English as a Foreign Language among Italian First-Year University Students ()

The aim of this study is to investigate first-year non-English-major Italian University students’ ability to assess their English proficiency at the beginning of the academic year based on comparisons ...