C++ emerged in 1985 and remains one of the most popular languages, in part due to its performance. It is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the latest ...

The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

It was a concept developed at a university in the 1960s, but wasn’t a widely used part of programming languages until the 1990s. Basically, every language does it now,” says Hicks. Unlike companies, ...

C++ is currently the fastest growing programming language in Tiobe's popularity index and it's probably due to the arrival of C++20.

C++ went on to become one of the most popular programming languages ever created. It was designed to be a “general use” language: It can be run on just about any platform, and it shows up ...

C had actually experienced a pretty significant drop on the index in 2016 and 2017, going from 17.145% in rating in November 2015 to 6.477% by August 2017. As of January 2020, C is back up at 15.773%.

Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn.

In 1978, the language's legendary and still widely read manual, "The C Programming Language," was published for the first time.