For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work. One of the most enduring, clever, and geekily satisfying inside jokes has been hiding in plain sight: the recursive acronym.

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. University of Utah researchers found a rare 1973 UNIX tape in storage. The tape may reveal ...

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...

If you’ve ever used a smartphone, lost track of time browsing through website after website, or played a video game on a Next-Gen console, you have used the Unix operating system or one of its ...

Mr. Vanhoenacker is an airline pilot and an author. One morning late last autumn, I took off from London’s Heathrow Airport, my base as a Boeing 787 pilot, and landed the next morning at Haneda ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a heart shape "Donate to the archive" An illustration of ...

1.19.1 Operating system and architecture: Fedora 39, x86-x64 Image flashed: FreeDOS What do you think should have happened: Passwort request for root access to the hardware to beginn with the flashing ...

LINGUISTS TEND to say that all languages are valuable, expressive and complex. They usually attribute negative attitudes to prejudice and politics. That is probably why no one has carefully studied ...