Programming will change. There will be fewer professional programmers who make their living coding line-by-line. But programmers will still be needed in order to code line-by-line, either to fill in ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

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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 ...

There’s a persistent stereotype that developers don’t have friends, don’t go outside, don’t attend social events, and don’t know what sunlight looks like. According to this myth, we all live in dimly ...

Ada, a 45-year-old programming language, might just solve the very problems developers have been grappling with for years. I realise that for many developers – particularly those who entered the ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

If the war in Gaza ends this week — not a sure thing — it will be followed by a long battle about its lessons. Here are mine: “Believe people when they tell you who they are.” Maya Angelou’s classic ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SRG23\230787) which supported the research project reported here. If you’ve always wanted to learn a new ...

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 ...