Best Fortran Podcasts (2026)

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Special Episode 2: Halcyon Dreams on the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser 3:53:12

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2+ y ago3:53:12

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When Disney announced a full-immersion live-action role-playing Star Wars experience, it should not be surprised that Kat and Dan started saving up immediately. The three-day, two-night experience was intense, immersive, and incredibly personal. If you don’t have time to read the 10,000 word illustrated blog about our journey or simply prefer to li…

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Special Episode 1: Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans 1:50:04

8+ y ago1:50:04

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By Dan Amrich & Katrin Auch

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The Tower of Babel 13:54

10+ y ago13:54

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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.By BBC Radio 4

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Java 13:43

10+ y ago13:43

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Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.By BBC Radio 4

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Basic 13:53

10+ y ago13:53

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Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic.By BBC Radio 4

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Cobol 13:52

10+ y ago13:52

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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.By BBC Radio 4

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Fortran 13:54

10+ y ago13:54

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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 …