We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Scala, a programming language "designed to integrate features of object-oriented programming and functional programming" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala ...