This week’s episode of BBC Radio’s Digital Planet show includes a short segment on the 50th anniversary of Fortran. The presenter, Gareth Mitchell, interviewed me last week and about 4 minutes of that interview are included.<\/p>\n
For one week only, starting today, an MP3 of the entire half-hour show can be downloaded from this web page: The Fortran segment starts at about 19m38s into the show. Update 2<\/strong>: With the permission of BBC Radio, I’ve added the audio of the Fortran segment to the Memoirs and user stories<\/a> section of the CHM<\/a> Fortran web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n \nMitchell interviews Paul McJones on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Fortran; additional commentary by Bill Thompson; produced by Helena Selby.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n This week’s episode of BBC Radio’s Digital Planet show includes a short segment on the 50th anniversary of Fortran. The presenter, Gareth Mitchell, interviewed me last week and about 4 minutes of that interview are included. If you’re interested, the show will be broadcast at various times December 18 and 19 (today and tomorrow); local … Continue reading “BBC Radio observes Fortran’s 50th birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf you’re interested, the show will be broadcast at various times December 18 and 19 (today and tomorrow); local schedules are available at this web page:
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\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/programmes\/digital_planet.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nUpdate<\/strong>: A BBC reorganization removed the download link from the page above; in a comment below, Derek Mahar notes the episode download site is now http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/podcasts\/digitalp\/<\/a> and this download itself is http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/worldservice\/digitalp\/digitalp_20071218-1232.mp3<\/a>
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