Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

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 ...

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Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

After a long career in W&M's German Studies Program, Jenny Taylor retired in May 2025. We celebrated her work here at several events. At our Spring BBQ, students presented memories and anecdotes from ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

The app’s code block feature now supports CSharp, CSS, Go, HTML, JSON, Kotlin, and PHP in addition to the five languages it originally launched with in 2022. Follow topics and authors from this story ...