Programming language popularity index No. 1 reads: "<i>C is No. 1</i>," while programming language popularity index No. 2 proclaims: "<i>C at an all time low.</i>" So which is it? Both. Which speaks ...

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programming language C and the co-inventor of the UNIX operating system has shuffled off this mortal coil. His contributions to contemporary computing are so ...

Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan join other notable technologist in Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame for their work including the C programming language.

We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...

The C programming language remains the mainstay for embedded developers. Find out how it has changed over the years.

The C language by far is the most popular programming language. C originated at Bell Labs while writing the first UNIX operating system for a DEC PDP-7 computer with only 8K bytes of memory by the ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...