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For all practical purposes, BASIC is seldom used and mostly forgotten today. But given my praise for it, why is it like that? As I see there were three reasons, and as time went by, their accumulated effect was devastating.Reason #1.The IBM PC, and later it’s clones, completely overtook the home computer market. On ...

Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take a look at some programming languages and the story behind how they were named.Before we start — If you’re curious about how things are named, check out my newsletter Why Is That Called That, where I explore the origin of words, phrase...

In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static typing: JavaScript (via TypeScript), PHP, Python, even Ruby has something along the lines as far as I know.It’s become quite widespread in each of these languages’ communities, to the point of being considered a best practice...