[Year 12 SofDev] FORTRAN - on BBC radio?

[Mark]

Here's something a little different that you can safely ignore and delete
as the languid holiday break gently starts leading to statewide hysterical
screaming from Victorian teachers' houses.

FORTRAN - on BBC iPlayer radio*.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmpf5

Fortran
*Codes that Changed the World*
Episode 1 of 5

*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 used to talk to the machines. FORTRAN is the oldest of what are
called high level languages and marked a revolution in computing. With its
invention programmers no longer had to work at the level of the machine in
ones and zeroes but could talk in terms of the problem they wanted solved.
And those problems were the calculations that allowed everything from the
space race to nuclear power to become a reality.*

(15 minutes)

*Radio. You might have heard of it.
It's like a TV with a broken picture tube, so you can only *listen* to
things.
Heh... what will they think of next?

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Mark Kelly
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