Programming languages are the primary tools for creating software. As of 2002, hundreds exist, some more used than others, and each claiming to be the best. In contrast, in the days when computers were being developed there was just one...

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Byline: Bob Jackson News Staff Writer When Ding-Wen Hsu became principal of the Colorado Chinese Language School a year ago, one of her goals was for students to research their culture and share it with others. ''My mission is to make...

"Often where history is utterly dumb concerning the past, language speaks." (1) Europe's discovery of Sanskrit, "the America of languages," as Raymond Schwab calls it, was perhaps as momentous in its import as that earlier discovery to which Schwab's evocative phrase links...