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  • Subject: Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison
  • From: "paul cunnane" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:49:05 -0000

> The Turing machine guy.  It figures.
>
> How did folks like that make a living?  :)

Sadly, as it turns out, he didn't.  Despite being one of the key people
involved in cracking the Enigma cipher, he was so shoddily treated by his
homeland after the war that he committed suicide.

You can read about him and the many other great minds behind modern
computing in Howard Rheingold's excellent book, Tools for Thought:
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/

On that note, Claude Shannon has sadly passed away at the age of 85:
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html

--
Paul

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