{"podcast":{"title":"Advent of Computing","slug":"advent-of-computing-497186","podcast_index_feed_id":497186,"rss_url":"https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://adventofcomputing.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/e/2/5/4e25bc8089f88907/logo5.png","author":"Sean S Haas","episode_count":199,"summary":"Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 173 - Hybrid Programming","slug":"episode-173-hybrid-programming","published_at":"2025-12-29T00:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186/episode-173-hybrid-programming","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186","url":"https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-173-hybrid-programming","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/adventofcomputing/ep173_hybrid_programming.mp3?dest-id=1206722","summary":"Hybrid computers are composed of a digital computer linked to an analog computer. That leads to an interesting challenge: how do you write software for one of these things? The analog side actively resists programming, while the digital side can't comprehend of continuous values. In the 1960s specialized languages appeared that tried to bridge this divide. And, I assure you, they are not at all like what you would expect.","meta_description":"Hybrid computers are composed of a digital computer linked to an analog computer. That leads to an interesting challenge: how do you write software for on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3779,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/advent-of-computing-497186/episodes/episode-173-hybrid-programming/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186/episode-173-hybrid-programming.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}