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.

Java

Apr 9th, 2015 13m 43s

Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.

Basic

Apr 8th, 2015 13m 53s

Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic.

Cobol

Apr 7th, 2015 13m 52s

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.

Fortran

Apr 6th, 2015 13m 54s

The history of computing is dominated by the hardware; the race for speed and power has overshadowed how we've devised ways to instruct these machines to do useful tasks. In this 5 part series Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages we'

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