Reminds me immediately of these two passages: > 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligen

Reminds me immediately of these two passages: > 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them. > 1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented. (from http://james-iry.blogspot.nl/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.nl/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mo...)