Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.

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The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...