If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

In addition to C, the pioneering computer scientist made significant contributions to Unix and received many awards honoring his work. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

At a Computer Science Education Seminar talk Thursday, C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup shared his thoughts on the role of C++ and what needs fixing in programming education. C++, a programming language ...

The summer is slowly slipping away with August almost upon us. If you want to make the most of the time left by learning something new, check out the Humble Bundle called Programming Languages by ...

Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...