IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Python stays far ahead after another dip; C holds second, Java retakes third from C++, and R rises to eighth as SQL slips, with Delphi steady in tenth. May’s TIOBE Index has one of those charts that ...