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

As a result, Google, Yahoo and Spotify are reaping the benefits. The infographic below outlines the history of programming languages in greater detail. This infographic originally appeared on Veracode ...

Programming language C might be 48 years old, but it's still hugely relevant for developers today and, by one measure, still more popular than Python.

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever.