Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python. The main goal behind Cython is to make it ...

Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) ...

Not quite 20 years ago, I was consulting for Symbolics, working on a Windows front end for PC Macsyma. I was writing Windows code in C, and working closely with a Symbolics LISP programmer named Frank ...

I’ve loved working with computers since I was a little kid. I remember learning some basic code in middle school, but my interests never developed because I spent all of my time playing sports. That ...