James Gosling learned a lesson in a recent blog post on the subject of scripting vs. strongly typed general purpose languages, and that is that readers of technology news are evil. Yes, I mean you.

Also called a "domain-specific language," a special-purpose language is a programming language designed to solve a finite class of problems. For example, LISP and Prolog were designed for AI. Tex was ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

A programming language that is used to solve a wide variety of problems. Languages such as C, C++ and Java are examples. Contrast with special-purpose language. See general purpose. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

What do we mean when we say “words matter?” In the context of a great advertisement, your wording is a combination of copy that moves someone to make a purchase. In a speech, a word or phrase can ...

We depend on truthful communication for exchanging reliable information with one another, and we unsurprisingly have norms and conventions to promote this reliable exchange of information through ...

There are plenty of reasons for the big push for purpose. As part of the shift from shareholder to stakeholder capitalism, employees are demanding that their work, and their employers, stand for ...