Tiobe index of programming language popularity index has the R language for statistical computin back in its top 10.
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Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their ...
Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...
To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...
Most of us have downloaded a language app, nailed “hello” and “thank you,” and promptly forgotten everything by the next month. Qlango is built to fix that problem — for good. This lifetime Qlango ...