Codes that Changed the World Podcast
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.
Episodes to download
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The Tower of Babel
Fri 10 Apr 2015
5/5 Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
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Java
Thu 9 Apr 2015
4/5 The language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
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Basic
Wed 8 Apr 2015
3/5 As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic.
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Cobol
Tue 7 Apr 2015
2/5 Deeply unpopular, but 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it. Why?
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Fortran
Mon 6 Apr 2015
1/5 Aleks Krotoski explores the language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.
