Science & Medicine

Codes that Changed the World

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Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.

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5 episodes

The Tower of Babel

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 K...

13:54Apr 10, 2015

Java

Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.

13:43Apr 9, 2015

Basic

Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic.

13:53Apr 8, 2015

Cobol

Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in Cobol. Aleks Krotoski explores...

13:52Apr 7, 2015

Fortran

The history of computing is dominated by the hardware; the race for speed and power has overshadowed how we've devised ways to instruct thes...

13:54Apr 6, 2015

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