How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.

These new languages utilized new abstractions to make programming easier.

Originally created to make programming more accessible to kids, “Kodu” is not so much a game as it is a set of tools — tools that not only teach basic programming concepts but also make ...

But because thinking about computing on this scale would make programming in assembly code look like child’s play, each corelet in IBM’s model is a black box: All that’s exposed for the ...

Can programming be a craft? I was thinking about this as I was reading Matthew Crawford’s excellent book The World Beyond Your Head. Much like Crawford’s earlier work Shop Class as Soulcraft ...

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

Many in the supercomputing community want programming to be made easier, but the fundamental issue is far more complex than that, says Andrew Jones. Most people agree that programming parallel ...

The programming languages that are in highest demand, from Objective-C to Python to Apple Swift and PHP.