Well said my friend, well said. The comment you responded to reminds me of my favorite quote of Alan Kay where he compares software culture to pop culture, and

Well said my friend, well said. The comment you responded to reminds me of my favorite quote of Alan Kay where he compares software culture to pop culture, and expounds on the importance of history to rise to the higher levels. I was lucky enough to learn cryptography from Len Adleman at USC, and guess what he started with? Classical ciphers.