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Fortran
Aleks Krotoski explores the language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.
Cobol
Deeply unpopular, but 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it. Why?
Basic
As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic.
Java
The language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
