Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Move programming out of the source code, into the database Sure, Web services will simplify change management, but it won't eliminate many unnecessary development costs.

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...

Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow are pushing the bar on AI for code generation with StarCoder2, a new family of open-access large language models (LLMs). Available today in three different ...

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

Open source programming tool on the rise: Gerrit The rise of code reviews at larger development shops could lead to only one thing: the creation of a tool to automate the process. Enter Gerrit.

Researchers say at least eight major Microsoft applications appear to incorporate borrowed open-source code--so they may be open to attack via the zlib security flaw.