In the Mac stupid and/or cool thread I posted some AppleScript to fix an issue with the Safari web browser. Immediate comment: AppleScript sucks. No controversy there. I mentioned ARexx on the Amiga, ...

On February 12, something strange happened in the world of AI. Scott Shambaugh, an engineer at matplotlib, a widely-used library for visualizing data in the programming language python, discovered a ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

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How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...

IBM stock was down 10% on Monday afternoon after Anthropic published a blog post about how its Claude Code tool can be used to modernize software written in the COBOL language, which handles ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

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 ...

Nov 2025 TIOBE: Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops from the top 10. The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another ...