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James Gosling Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty Images Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most exciting language, it remains one of the most important languages in use today. First released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, Java's journey from a niche project for consumer electronics to a global powerhouse in enterprise, cloud, and web
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Smallest possible […] file This repository aims to collect the smallest possible syntactically valid files in different programming/scripting/markup languages. It all started with a blog post on the smallest possible HTML/XHTML files… Pull requests welcome! – Mathias License To the extent possible under law, the author has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. File types Archives Audio Documents Executables Graphics Languages Markup Video
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Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” made up of just eight non-alphabetic characters. Esolangs are experimental, jokey, and intentionally hard-to-use languages created to push the boundaries of code (and your buttons). In Brainfuck, part of the basic “Hello, World” program looks like .<-.<.+++.------.---, which makes any normal person wa
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In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, suggesting a link between language and physical environment. A great game of telephone inflated the number until, in 1984, the New York Times published an editorial claiming the Inuit have “100 synonyms” for the frozen white stuff we lump under a single term. Boas’s observation had swelled to mythi
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Using the popular Google Translate on your Apple device just got a lot easier. The latest Google Translate update allows you to pick the app as your default translation app for Apple iPhones and iPads running iOS and iPadOS 18.4 and later. Previously, you were limited to Apple's built-in option. Google began leveraging AI to boost Google Translate's offerings, adding 110 new languages last year to increase its total to 249 languages. Compare that to Apple Translate, which supports 19 languages.
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In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, suggesting a link between language and physical environment. A great game of telephone inflated the number until, in 1984, the New York Times published an editorial claiming the Inuit have “100 synonyms” for the frozen white stuff we lump under a single term. Boas’s observation had swelled to mythi
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Mexico is home to 68 officially recognized Indigenous languages, spoken by nearly 7 million people, including Mayan and Náhuatl. Yet, despite their historical significance, many of these languages are in decline. Urbanization, globalization, and the dominance of Spanish and English are slowly but surely pushing them to the brink. To preserve Mexico’s rich linguistic heritage, Mexican authorities have kick-started an initiative to offer Indigenous language classes, and, in some cases, fully bili
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In the movie Arrival (2016), a seven-limbed alien species lands on Earth with a language that no human can understand. The aliens – dubbed Heptapods – are obliging enough to provide room in their spaceship for linguistic exchanges, but the team charged with translation is baffled. The creatures write in sentences that look like circular smoky inkblots, unlike anything on our planet. The movie’s drama – based on a story by Ted Chiang – rests on the sheer strangeness of the Heptapod language, but
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Spatial Speech Translation consists of two AI models, the first of which divides the space surrounding the person wearing the headphones into small regions and uses a neural network to search for potential speakers and pinpoint their direction. The second model then translates the speakers’ words from French, German, or Spanish into English text using publicly available data sets. The same model extracts the unique characteristics and emotional tone of each speaker’s voice, such as the pitch an
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack It's well known that inheritance was invented by Simula. The History of Programming Languages session on Simula tells us the motivations behind that invention. Let's take a look. Simplifying the garbage collector Simula had a simple reference counting and garbage collection implementation: Unable to find such a [manual memory allocation] scheme providing sufficient programming flexibility, we implemented a reference count scheme, an idea borrowe
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack It's well known that inheritance was invented by Simula. The History of Programming Languages session on Simula tells us the motivations behind that invention. Let's take a look. Simplifying the garbage collector Simula had a simple reference counting and garbage collection implementation: Unable to find such a [manual memory allocation] scheme providing sufficient programming flexibility, we implemented a reference count scheme, an idea borrowe
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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET My wife and I like to travel to other countries, but we always face a familiar obstacle -- how to learn the language well enough to converse with people. We've tried taking language lessons, yet we invariably run into situations where we can't find the right words to express ourselves. Now, Google has launched a trio of translation tools that could help overcome this obstacle. Also: Want a quick daily podcast based on your interests? Try Google's latest AI exp
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Duolingo The world's most popular language-learning app is becoming a lot more multilingual. For beginning-level speakers In an announcement today, Duolingo said it is adding 148 new language courses, more than doubling the current number of offerings. Also: Your Meta Ray-Bans just got a big update for free - and it feels like science fiction Seven of the world's most popular languages -- Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin -- are now available in the app's 28 s
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Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Audio Overviews offer natural-sounding conversations between two virtual hosts on topics of your choice. After debuting in NotebookLM, Audio Overviews have already spread to the Gemini app. Now Google’s giving Audio Overviews a big accessibility boost, with support for output in over 50 languages. Call us a broken record by now, but the Audio Overviews Google initially cooked up for NotebookLM may just be the coolest thing we’ve seen from the company’s A
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Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents they have shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. The idea behind the feature is to give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded
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As many others observe as well, one of the major reasons to write is to firm up ideas in one’s own head. Serializing an idea out into English words is still no guarantee one understands it deeply, but it is great progress over a very fuzzy idea that has never been fleshed out at all. I’ve known for a long time I wanted to sit down and write this out. But I had no idea how many principles I’ve either drawn out from my times with functional languages, or had sharpened by them forcing me on to cer
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photo_Pawel/Getty Images We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used in its survey were even languages. Most of us are familiar with polls and poll results, especially during campaign seasons. Unfortunately, polls have long been proven to be far from accurate. Some polls have a natural bias for one party or the other (not for nefarious rea
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Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail’s Help Me Write feature now supports Japanese and Korean. This expansion comes after Google recently added support for French, German, and Italian. Help Me Write now supports eight languages. Google has brought plenty of AI tools to its various services, and Gmail has also received a handy Help Me Write feature. This allows you to compose and refine emails using Gemini. The search giant recently expanded the list of supported languages, and we’re n
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rob dobi/Getty Images Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has become significantly entrenched in our lives. But popular AI products are set up to serve primarily American and European interests, despite being touted as global tools democratizing access to technology, from the use cases they're applied to the languages they speak. Several African researchers outside tech's US nucleus are trying to challenge that status quo and, with it, the bigger power dy
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Monday 24 March 2025 Martin Odersky and Haoyi Li BLOG There is always ongoing discussion about the future direction of the Scala language. How fast should it move? What needs to be improved? Should the language change at all? This article discusses how Scala must keep evolving, why that evolution is necessary, and what directions we expect that evolution to take. We hope that this will cover many of the frequently asked questions on the direction of the Scala language, and help the community u
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A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled with the loss of one of the biggest funders of global digital rights work: the United States government. As I wrote in my dispatch, the Trump administration's shocking, rapid gutting of the US government (and its push into what some prominent political scientists call “competitive authoritarianism”) also affects
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Are you trying to learn a new language? How about multiple languages? We have a deal for you! Right now, you can get a lifetime subscription to Babbel for just $124.99. Those savings are enormous, considering the going price is usually $599, and this happens to be the lowest we’ve seen this subscription go for! It also gives you access to learn all available languages. Get the Babbel Lifetime Subscription for just $124.99 ($474.01 off) This offer is available from our TechDeals store. You will
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There is a common metaphor for hyperspace travel in science fiction, where some scientist type explains how the FTL works by taking a piece of paper, drawing a line on it to demonstrate “normal” travel, then folding the paper to bring the origin and destination together. Imperative code affords straight line approaches to problem. I have some code. It does 73 things. I need it to do a 74th thing, in the middle of one of the things it currently does, which is itself a complicated mixture of the
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From Languages to Language Sets After working with a lot of languages, writing my own, this is currently what I consider the most useful classification of programming languages, into 4 levels: 4: Interpreted, dynamically typed: JavaScript, Python, PHP 3: Interpreted, statically typed: Hack, Flow, TypeScript, mypy 2: Compiled with automatic memory management (statically typed): Go, Java (Kotlin), C#, Haskell, Objective-C, Swift 1: Compiled with manual memory management (statically typed): Ru
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On the State of Coherence in the Land of Type Classes Dimi Racordon , Eugene Flesselle , and Cao Nguyen Pham The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2025, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 15 Submission date: 2024-10-01 Publication date: 2025-02-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2025/10/15 Full text: PDF Abstract Type classes are a popular tool for implementing generic algorithms and data structures without loss of efficiency, bridging the gap between parametric
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In an effort to make movies and TV shows more accessible on Prime Video, Amazon announced that it's testing an AI dubbing system that will translate select content on the company's streaming service into other languages. Amazon says that "AI-aided dubbing" will be available in English and Latin American Spanish on 12 licensed movies and series available through Prime Video, including "El Cid: La Leyenda, Mi Mamá Lora and Long Lost." That the company describes it as "AI-aided dubbing" rather tha
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This is what we have to put up with in the software localisation industry. Sentences in all languages can be templated as easily as in English: {user} is in {location} etc. Words that are short in English are short in other languages too. For any text in any language, its translation into any other language is approximately as long as the original. For every lower-case character, there is exactly one (language-independent) upper-case character, and vice versa. The lower-case/upper-case dist
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With the release of the first beta of iOS 18.4 last week, Apple has finally expanded the capabilities of Apple Intelligence to languages other than English. But one of the questions that non-English users had was “will Apple Intelligence work in multiple languages?” Read on as I detail the experience of using Apple’s AI features in two different languages. In short, yes, you can use Apple Intelligence in multiple languages. Although this may seem obvious when you think about other generative AI
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ElevenLabs, an AI startup that just raised a $180 million mega funding round, has been primarily known for its audio generation prowess. The company took a step in another technological direction by launching its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe. The startup, valued at $3.3 billion, has aided many other companies in providing speech-to-text services through its vast library of voices. However, the company is now looking to get into speech detection and compete with the likes
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chrispecoraro/Getty Images Paris-based AI startup Mistral is focusing on providing large language models (LLMs) that understand regional-specific languages and are tailored to grasp the cultural nuances sometimes overlooked in larger, more general-purpose models trained to be versed in multiple languages. Mistral has released its first "specialized" regional language-focused model, Saba. According to Mistral, the 24-billion-parameter model has been trained on "meticulously curated datasets" fr
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