Small language models should be more cost effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy, and performing specific or tightly-defined tasks. But is it early days for SLMs?

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does ...

ABS is a programming language that works best when you're scripting on your terminal. It tries to combine the elegance of languages such as Python, or Ruby with the convenience of Bash. Let's try to ...

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's reach ...

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games.

I think it’s interesting that these were two tools you had to pay for. These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our ...

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity Your email has been sent The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar ...

This is the next in a series of challenges on your ability to recognize new and obscure programming languages. And you thought there would only be three of these quizzes. Well, I have a lot more ...

A version of Leibniz’s dream lives on today in programming languages. They don’t represent the totality of the physical and philosophical universe, but instead, the next best thing—the ever ...