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Aleks Krotoski tells the story of Fortran, the language that helped the scientists of the 1950s and 60s to put men on the moon and harness the atom. Show more
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Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in Cobol. Aleks Krotoski explores why.
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Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic.
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Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
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Today's digital world is a reverse tower of Babel. It takes all sorts of different languages to build it. It is this phenomenon that Aleks Krotoski explores in this final edition.
