BBC Sounds - Codes that Changed the World - Available Episodes

Fortran

Aleks Krotoski explores the language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.

• 15 mins
• 06 Apr 2015

Cobol

Deeply unpopular, but 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it. Why?

• 15 mins
• 07 Apr 2015

Basic

As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic.

• 15 mins
• 08 Apr 2015

Java

The language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.

• 15 mins
• 09 Apr 2015

The Tower of Babel

Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.

• 15 mins
• 10 Apr 2015