BBC ラジオでコンピュータ言語に関する Codes that Changed the World という全５回の特集番組があるようです。その第１回が Fortran の模様です。来週の月曜に放送があり、その後ネットでも聞けるようなるそうです。
次回以降は COBOL、BASIC とロートル向きのチョイスです。
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.
