Radio 4: Codes that Changed the World
4. Java
Clips from this programme
Introduction: JAVA is everywhere but invisible, connecting everyone to everything though the web
Duration: 01:04
JAVA: Shifting its shape and becoming more important - The top 2 of programming languages, running in the background of most computers (James Gosling SUN Microsystems with network connections): JAVA is the universal translator for Write once / Run anywhere programming
Duration: 03:38
JAVA: Nice user-interfaces possible, too - Web browsers animate, but the competition did better
Duration: 01:48
JAVA: Business on the internet, fast and secure
Duration: 02:27
JAVA: Use now and the future: Still used by its founder, James Gosling (Liquid Robotics) and for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Duration: 04:41
Credits
Duration: 00:06Radio 4: Codes that Changed the World
1. Fortran
First broadcast: 6th April 2015
Duration 13:56
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines. 1/5. Fortran: The language that helped put men on the moon and harness the atom.
2. Cobol
First broadcast: 7th April 2015
Duration 13:55
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of computer languages. 2/5. Cobol: Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in it.
3. Basic
First broadcast: 8th April 2015
Duration 13:56
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of computer languages. 3/5. Basic: As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, Basic became iconic
4. Java
First broadcast: 9th April 2015
Duration 13:44
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of computer languages. 4/5. Java: The programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
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5. The Tower of Babel
First broadcast: 10th April 2015
Duration 13:52
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of computer languages. 5/5. The Tower of Babel: Aleks likens today's digital world to a reverse Tower of Babel.