Codes that Changed the World
Just been catching up with this series from April, ‘Codes that Changed the World‘, from BBC Radio 4 about the history of programming languages. Really enjoyable and accessible so I’m linking to it here. The series is presented by Aleks Krotoski and looks at four key programming languages – Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Java. I really liked the idea that Basic was the punk rock of programming. Also notable how many women were prominent in the story of these languages. The music for the series was very good too – but sadly I can’t find any further information about who made it.
Hi, I produced this series, the music was specially commissioned from Miaoux Miaoux https://soundcloud.com/miaouxmiaoux
Loved the series – congratulations on a smashing piece of radio. The writing was excellent. I very much enjoyed the music too, and that’s from someone who normally doesn’t notice music. Thanks for the link.
Hi Peter. I should properly thank you for pointing me to Miaoux Miaoux. I’ve written a follow up post here: http://andystrange.org.uk/2015/11/miaoux-miaoux/