Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

because in the early days programming, too, was seen as dull work. The earliest programmers for the Eniac—the military-funded first programmable general-purpose computer—were entirely women ...

Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached ... which would increase productivity and subsequently company ...