At 13:45 on R4 there's a programme all about FORTRAN.
I knew you'd all be interested.
I'm writing a letter of complaint engraved on a stone tablet cos they've called it "Fortran" in the Radio Times.
Seems to be part of some "digital" season thingie they've got going on at the moment.
Yesterday some woman was wittering on about machine code and LEO (Lyons Electronic Office, the first commercial computer).
It was called "Ways of Thinking".
Implied that we geeks are almost creative.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pl2rx
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