Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

According to various sources, there are several hundred programming languages, although only a couple dozen are widely used at any given time. The Online Historical Encyclopedia of Programming ...