A programming language that is a machine independent and not tied to a specific CPU family. The source code of such a language is converted into machine language with software called a "compiler." See ...

LONDON — A C language compiler developed by basestation processor developer PicoChip Ltd. (Bath, England) has been accepted as an official port for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The compiler is ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

Prolific author Fred Eady has just published another book, “Master and Command C for PIC MCU,” Volume 1, which aims to help readers get the most out of the Custom Computer Services C (CCS) compiler ...

After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha -- version 0.1 -- of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes ...

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it’s calling Swift. Providing a new language with “none of the baggage of C,” Swift code can ...

We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it's written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159-1989, or ...

A programming language compiler that enhances the performance and/or reduces the size of the resulting machine program. Optimizing compilers require multiple passes in order to analyze the entire ...

A non-programming profession which writes a lot of code looks at which languages can solve its problems the fastest Lots of non-programmers seem to be learning how to program these days. However, one ...