computer language
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OpenAI announced last week that its artificial-intelligence model discovered two bugs in PHP, a computer language behind 70% of websites on the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
When Xerox executives decided not to release Interpress, a precursor to PostScript, Dr. Geschke and Warnock decided to quit and develop a version of the computer language on their own.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
If you actually look at the technologies that banks run on, we’re talking about COBOL, which is a computer language from the ’70s.
From The Verge ● Apr. 6, 2021
It began one day when he picked up a manual that someone had discarded, a manual for an obscure form of computer language for doing calculations.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Steven Levy
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