Codes that Changed the World
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqhqp
- Description
- Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-12-22 03:50
- last episode published
- 2015-04-10 00:00
- publication frequency
- 1.0 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 5
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- Categories
- Technology Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2015-04-10 | 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. |
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| 2015-04-09 | Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other. |
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| 2015-04-08 | Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic. |
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| 2015-04-07 | 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. |
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| 2015-04-06 | 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've use... |
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