On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status ...

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with ...

Researchers have been producing computer models of biological systems for almost as long as there have been computers. But these efforts have picked up in recent years as computing power has increased ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Lisp, an artificial intelligence language dating back to the 1960's, will make a re-appearance in EDA if a startup called Simantix Systems has its way. Simantix, a five-person ...

When Rich Hickey created Clojure he did so because he wanted a Lisp language that used immutable data structures by default, that was designed with concurrency in mind, and was compatible with an ...

New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. Rust came about because ...

Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died last night. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the ...

One of my favorite examples of how to create new technology and gain business leverage from it comes from Paul Graham’s book Hackers and Painters. Graham is famous for co-creating Y Combinator as well ...