A new programming language has been designed to get the most out of the latest multicore computer processors. If it finds favor among coders, it could provide more powerful software for many computers ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Microsoft is offering its .Net language for building parallel applications — Axum — enabling developers to build scalable applications for multcore systems via the .Net Framework, a Microsoft official ...

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Sir, Simon Kuper claims, in “Why Globish no longer cuts it” (Opening shot, January 13), that “India, for the first time ever, has a new generation of urbanites whose mother tongue is English. They no ...