Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

Quite a few historians have remarked that without Alan Turing, the Allies would 
have lost the Second World War.  He broke the Enigma code, and that allowed us 
to win the war in the Atlantic.  There was a remarkable play in Chicago called 
"Breaking the Code" that recounted his life, which ended quite tragically (by 
his own hand according to most accounts) shortly after his arrest and loss of 
security clearance - for being gay.  The man who may have made the most 
important singlehanded contribution to the war effort was now deemed 
untrustworthy by the very country he saved.  An exceptional mind lost 
prematurely.

Joe

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From: "paul cunnane" <paul@cunnane.net>
Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:00:40 -0000

>I'm sorry, but referring to Alan Turing as `a British guy' is like referring
to Thomas Edison as `an American guy'!  Turing is one of those names that
should never need to be qualified.

--
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Washington III" <w.washington@iols.net>
To: <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:17 AM
Subject: RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison


> I believe a British guy, Alan Turing, proved it mathematically in the
1940's.


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