As a result, Google, Yahoo and Spotify are reaping the benefits. The infographic below outlines the history of programming languages in greater detail. This infographic originally appeared on Veracode ...

The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

Programming language C might be 48 years old, but it's still hugely relevant for developers today and, by one measure, still more popular than Python.

US computer scientist Dennis Ritchie - one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language - has died at 70 after a long illness.