The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

North Dakota has 15 nationally certified American Sign Language interpreters for the whole state, with none living west of U.S. Highway 83, according to a national registry. Lindsey Solberg Herbel, ...

Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is one of the best-selling albums of all time, both generally and among soundtracks specifically, but its legacy extends far beyond its ubiquity ...

There are brewing legal fights against the Trump administration for language it's posting on federal websites and in government emails blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown. The ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight Your email has been sent Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

The Raku Programming Language was originally started as the next version of the Perl Programming Language (then at version 5.6.0, now at 5.40.2). Unfortunately the implementation of this next version ...