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Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Mark Turin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Ross Perlin has received funding from the National Science ...

Abstract: In 1961 and in 1969, two towers of Babel of programming languages were published. The first one appeared on the cover of Communications of the ACM. The second one appeared on Jean E.