This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

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Explore the fascinating history of the Python programming language, from its inception in the late 1980s to becoming one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today.

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Computing How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.