Syntax highlighting used to be trickier to implement. Not only does an editor need to understand the syntax of a language, it also has to deal with partial code as it’s edited. A naive approach might ...

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...