Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...