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He had many firsts to his credit. Wikipedia says that the Z3, which he created in 1941, is the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer. For creating it, he received in ...

TIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index, which ranks the most popular programming languages based on data from the Internet. To compile the index, TIOBE uses search engines and ...

Java-compatible language Groovy has re-entered the top 20 most popular languages, according to Tiobe's search engine-based rankings. Groovy, which came to life in 2007, hasn't been a top-20 language ...

TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight Your email has been sent Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for ...