RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*Sorry, off topic*

Marco,
I've read Snow Crash and Diamond Age.  I loved Snow Crash, Diamond age was
ok.  I'm not sure I would like Cryptonomicon from what it seems to be about.
If you've read the others, would you suggest it?

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco_Van_Maris@ept.lu [mailto:Marco_Van_Maris@ept.lu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison
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> Excellent reading in this context : Cryptonomicon by Neal 
> Stephenson...
> 
> marco
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> "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@plutabrothers.com> on 27/02/2001 15:33:50
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> Subject:  Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison
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> 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
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "paul cunnane" <paul@cunnane.net>
> Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:00:40 -0000
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> >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
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> > I believe a British guy, Alan Turing, proved it 
> mathematically in the
> 1940's.
> 
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