Command Line Heroes podcast

Articles covering an original podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Presented by Red Hat.

Command Line Heroes season 4 episode 1 covers the rise of minicomputers

Minicomputers and The Soul of a New Machine

The new season of Command Line Heroes begins with a story of increases in memory, company politics, and a forgotten technology at the heart of our computing history.

In the finale of Command Line Heroes, we learn about the significant impact of C

The monumental impact of C

The season finale of Command Line Heroes offers a lesson in how a small community of open source enthusiasts can change the world.

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Talking to machines: Lisp and the origins of AI

The Command Line Heroes podcast explores the invention of Lisp and the rise of thinking computers powered by open source software.

The birth of the Bash shell

This week's Command Line Heroes podcast delves into the most widely used and de facto standard scripting language, its early inspirations as part of the Free Software…

The infrastructure is code: A story of COBOL and Go

COBOL remains the dominant language of mainframes. What can Go learn from its history to dominate the cloud?

Is Perl going extinct?

Command Line Heroes explores the meteoric rise of Perl, its fall from the spotlight, and what's next in the programming language's lifecycle.

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