Pioneered by University of New Mexico’s computer science chairman Cleve Moler in the early 1970s, MATLAB (short for matrix laboratory) is computer programming language that supports mathematical and numerical computations, as well as matrix manipulations, function plotting, data plotting, algorithm...
No, that’s not a typo. There’s really programming language that’s simply referred to as “R.” Created by statistician and computer programming John Chambers while working for Bell Labs in the early 1990s, R is a programming language that’s closely aligned...
Groovy programming is the brainchild of James Strachan, who first discussed the idea of this object-oriented language for use on the Java platform back in 2003. Since then, numerous versions have been released, with Groovy 1.1 Final officially launching for...
Pioneered by Swiss computer scientist and programmer Martin Odersky, Scala is a general-purpose programming language that boasts a strong static type. It was designed to satisfy many of the shortcomings of Java, supporting interchangeable libraries between the two languages. Scala...
If not, you will soon. Designed by Graydon Hoare, Rust is a general-purpose compiled programming language that emphasis safe, concurrent coding. The idea for creating such a language came in the late 2000s when Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare was working...
Have you heard of Julia programming? If not, you probably will soon. This dynamic high-level programming language is able to meet the unique needs of scientific computing while still being an effective tool for general-purpose coding, web development, and specification...
Named after the famous French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, Pascal is a procedural computer programming language that encourages the use of structured programming practices and data structuring. Pascal is the brainchild of Swiss computer scientist Nikalus Wirth. He had...
From telecommunications and banking to instant messaging, e-commerce and more, Erlang is used in wide range of real-world applications. This versatile general-purpose programming language and garbage-collected runtime system is used primarily for developing concurrent and distributed systems. Origins of Erlang...
Originally developed by Facebook in 2011, HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is a virtual machine that’s intended for the execution of programs written in Hack and PHP. Featuring a special type system known as “gradual typing,” it supports the use of...
Originally developed by Michael DeHaan back in 2012, Ansible is a simplistic, open-source IT automation engine that’s used to configure and manage computers, combine multi-node software development, execute ad hoc tasks, automate cloud provisioning, and other related IT tasks. Because...