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Just a quibble: I think Englishman Alan Turing deserves a lot of credit for inventing computing. The US has done a lot with innovating it. Otherwise a good ra
by 3am 13y ago
Just a quibble: I think Englishman Alan Turing deserves a lot of credit for inventing computing. The US has done a lot with innovating it.
Otherwise a good rant.
edit: credit also to Babbage and Lovelace (also English)
- ojbyrne 13y agoActually another quibble. A few minutes on wikipedia suggests that the ancient Greeks invented "computing:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Not to invalid your point, just that its quibbles all the way down.
- 3am 13y agoBut that has the feel of saying that Newton didn't invent calculus because of the work Archimedes did with infinitesimals. And in Turing's case it's without a Leibnitz-esque independent co-discoverer figure muddying the water. Turing is the Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Jordan of computer science.
- Dewie 13y agoNow don't ruin the rah-rah, US Nr. 1 appeal (or: US isn't Nr. 1 because now people are sissies)
- _delirium 13y agoJudging by the fact that the word "sissies" is in the title, I don't think Joe Conway has any interest in giving some gay person any credit. He's a real man, you know. Plus, attacking other people as lazy doesn't mean you yourself have to put in the work to familiarize yourself with history before making historical claims. Going to the library is too hard for my generation.