Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.
Radio 4,路5 episodes
Aleks Krotoski explores the language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.
Deeply unpopular, but 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it. Why?
As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic.
The language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.