"The Net is inspiring a serious push in Asian language computing, " says Bala Pillai, a Malaysian-born, Sydney-based Internet strategist.
Martin Odersky, developer of a computing language called Scala, is one of the pioneers making sure it all keeps growing.
It is an unstructured computing language after the fashion described here.
One expert said that the Twitter hack probably happened after an employee's home or work computer was compromised through vulnerabilities in Java, a commonly used computing language whose weaknesses have been well publicized.
But chances are good you haven't heard about the passing of John Backus, a computing pioneer who invented the Fortran programming language for IBM.
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Amazon built X-Ray using its expertise in language processing and machine learning, access to significant storage and computing resources with Amazon S3 and EC2, and a deep library of book and character information.
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Ever since the birth of modern computing, programmers have wanted to turn their machines into language processors.
But that is to reckon without the shift towards Internet-based computing, and the growing success of the Java programming language, which allows applications to run on a variety of platforms.
The advent of modern optimizing compilers and many fold enhancements in computing hardware performance have now eliminated the need to use an assembly language in most applications and most applications are now written in higher level languages.
The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
Rented applications fit beautifully with Oracle's vision of a simpler and more reliable form of computing based on the open standards of the Internet and the Java programming language.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
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