June 17, 2016 1:42 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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June 7, 2016 4:09 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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June 3, 2016 1:53 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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May 27, 2016 2:44 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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May 22, 2016 5:40 am
Published by Gerard Millares
Programmers have always known that new programming languages need to be learned to keep their skills marketable in the workplace. That trend is not only continuing – it seems to be increasing due to the rate of change taking place...
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May 20, 2016 1:48 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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May 6, 2016 3:14 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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May 4, 2016 4:03 am
Published by Gerard Millares
Despite our best efforts, there’s usually no option but to agree with people when they say there’s no substitute for C or C++. No matter how many new programming languages come and go, these two are seemingly here to stay....
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May 3, 2016 1:45 am
Published by Gerard Millares
There was a time when finding a developer was difficult, but times have changed and so has the skill set of developers around the globe. Knowing how to code in C++ or Java are no longer skills that you can...
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April 29, 2016 3:40 pm
Published by Prasannika
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...
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