“HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age. It’s both how we write and what we read. It’s the most democratic computer language and the most global. It’s the ...

In fact, most developers use several programming languages. Who doesn’t also use JavaScript, HTML, XML, WSDL, SQL and other languages (domain specific, procedural, markup, functional, object-oriented, ...

In Programming Languages research, we explore the ways in which computations are expressed in written form. Our research focuses on three central ideas: the semantics of a particular piece of program ...

The best way to understand computers and bend them to our will is to learn to speak their language so they will understand our commands. The people who love fantasy novels sometimes imagine that ...