"Join Mark on a quick-fire, whistle-stop, shallow-to-the-point-of-vacuous tour through the history of programming and programming languages ... hopefully entertaining talk. Warning: not suitable ...

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language ... Some people say it's a dying language, but I think the potential is huge. When I talk to people who use Fortran, they tell me the number ...

Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...