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My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to ...

Attackers are exploiting a popular code package for the Ruby programming language in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing sensitive data from Telegram chats. The attack demonstrates how threat ...

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Blockchain development, a booming field, is making its way into every industry and business. BitcoinWorldwide estimated that as of December 2017, there were over 300 million cryptocurrency users ...

Keʻalohi Wang is a freelance writer from Kailua Kona, Hawaiʻi. She has a background in content creating, social media management, and marketing for small businesses. An English Major from University ...

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

This project consists of reproducing some of the methods from the Enumerable class with the Ruby programming language and the specific requirements for the implementation.