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The short answer to the question is yes. macOS (as it is now called) is an evolution of NextStep. However, there is probably not very much original NextStep code left in it today. NextStep was an ope …

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that what is wanted is not a language that has conditional branches i.e. an equivalent to if condition then goto someLabel because Turing complete com …

This is a copy-paste of my answer to the other question. R. Schmitz said I could do it though. If we are talking about a block structured conditional like if condition some arbitrary sequence of …

Maybe we don't always enter things twice, but verification is still a major part of software engineering. A lot of pure data entry is still done by double keying, which is to say, the data is entered …

To me it seems like kilobytes were well established as 1024 bytes, both by programmers using them and by electronic engineers They are not the only people though. The term got confusing mostly be …

In subversion, a revision refers to a snapshot in time of the whole directory tree. You can have a mixed revision working copy, but the whole version number thing is fundamentally different to CVS. Th …

I started working in the computer industry in the mid to late 80's. Most of my work involved larger computers than micros and teams of up to 10 or more people working on bespoke projects. At that tim …

I am trying to find the source code for the earliest implementation of the stack data structure in C There is no stack data structure in C. Look through the language specification and you won't f …

The answer to the question as written is no. However, I can see where it came from. When Microsoft developed Windows NT, they decided they needed a "secure attention key" (SAK). This was a key, or ke …

Part of the problem here is the definition of "garbage collection". This is what the video says: The more difficult problem [than forgetting to free memory] is after a series of calls to malloc() and …

This page has a list of various floating point formats for a number of different machines. Having skimmed it, I must say that the DEC 10 format seems quite rare. None of the architectures I have signi …

Many interesting answers here but I would say that the number one reason(s) without any shadow of a doubt is Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Excel for Windows in combination with the fact tha …

Back when I started in the late 1980's, we still had test suites and test cases. It's just that all the tests were carried out by hand. Unit tests were pretty much unheard of - the developer just did …

From the beginning Pascal has always had a goto statement. So while it didn't have explicit break and continue, they were trivially easy to emulate: while someCondition do begin 2: (* do s …

Let's get the answer to the question out of the way first. Limiting ourselves to high level languages designed for electronic digital computers and that are not really obscure, the answer is between C …