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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...
theregister

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees

Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report. The modestly titled Notes by djb on using Fil-C ...
GitHub

Software Engineering

Software Engineering is the discipline of applying engineering principles and practices to the creation, maintenance, and design of software for a variety of applications. This topic covers a broad ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
Security

Software House C•CURE IQ v3.10 from Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls recently released Software House C•CURE IQ v3.10, the latest advancement to its intelligent security platform. C•CURE v3.10 delivers an integrated access control and video ...
InfoWorld

Meet Zig: The modern alternative to C

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first pictures, and reframing privacy

Plus: what new satellite images reveal about the damage America's bombs have inflicted on Iran This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's ...
MarketWatch

Here’s why unemployment in software coding and programming is so high

Shares of ManpowerGroup Inc. tumbled to a 13-year low Thursday, after the jobs-placement company suffered a rare earnings miss as uncertainty surrounding tariffs led to lower demand from employers. To ...
The New York Times

Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...
Newsweek

Social Security’s COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...