FOUNDER OF THE RACKET: Matthias Felleisen is a German-American computer science professor and author. He grew up in Germany and...

WHAT IS GO? Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson....

WHAT IS TCL? TCL (pronounced "tickle" or as an ) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was...

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique...

Kristen Nygaard's father, William Martin Nygaard, was born in Kristiania (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and then Oslo after 1924)...

Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He co-authored and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring...

WHAT IS RUBY? Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by...

WHAT IS SWIFT? Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. and the open-source...

WHAT IS OCaml? OCaml, formerly Objective Caml) is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language that extends the Caml dialect of...

WHAT IS BASIC? BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages...

What is Simula? Simula, short for “simulation language,” was the first object-oriented programming language. Foundation of Simula:...

What is Clojure? Clojure (pronounced as closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java...

What is a prolog? Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Prolog...

What is Javascript? JavaScript (js) is a lightweight object-oriented programming language that is used by several websites for scripting...

What is SNOBOL? SNOBOL (“StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language”) is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at...

What is Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)? The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is an open-source native code compiler for the functional...

What is C#? C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language encompassing static typing, strong typing, lexically scoped,...

What is AWK? AWK (awk) is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as data extraction and reporting...

What is COBOL? Worked in UNIVAC : In 1949, Hopper became an employee of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician...

WHAT IS MATHEMATICA? Wolfram Mathematica (usually termed Mathematica) is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of...