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.

Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd. (“Horizon Quantum”), a pioneer of software infrastructure for quantum applications, today announced the debut of Beryllium, a hardware-agnostic, high-level language ...

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 ...

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The 2022 National Language Policy was fingered as the culprit for abysmal performance in public examinations; it was said to have “destroyed” the education system, as pupils and students often ...

Astronomers at the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have reported the first radio detection from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. First a recap for anyone who isn't up to speed with our third ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

Abstract: Task-oriented grasping of unfamiliar objects is a necessary skill for robots in dynamic in-home environments. Inspired by the human capability to grasp such objects through intuition about ...

Goal-oriented language-guided navigation requires robust exploration capabilities for agents to navigate to specified goals in unknown environments without step-by-step instructions. Existing methods ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

In an age marked by misinformation, discursive overload, and multiple interlinked global crises, language has become the medium through which complex realities are constructed, perceived, and ...