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In the same sense, it is Kurt Gödel who is the father of computer science, not Alan Turing... These credit fights are not helping anyone. The Poles did the first effort, which is impressive considering their resources, and was important because it inspired everything afterwards.
Then came the British people - many men and women, not Alan Turing alone. But yeah, the single most important person in this story is indeed Alan Turing, so this is the name that will show up. And most of the effort (time, manpower, etc.) came from Britain, so they get their names in the title. -
@paziek bit condescending your comment. Though still ++ it. Read all about it when I saw the movie enigma (imitation game is far better though). So I know full well what role the poles played and my first thought went to that when reading about the UK so called breaking the code. It's not that Turing's team did nothing of import but it was done in collaboration with the poles we should never forget that! Never the less I like Turing's work, his machines and philosophies/theories. He was truly inspiring.
Clearly right now... Just spent 2 days writing a minesweeper clone because I wanted the ability to undo.
It's...
"Enigma machine kep private the communications done by Nazi. It was a really difficult code to break because it changed each day. There was a man in England, Alan Turing, who broke it. He's nowadays known as one of the fathers of the Computer Science. I will show in the next lessons how you can simulate Enigma coder just with an easy C program of 60-70 lines. In the WW2 this was considered a military-level safe code. Thanks to mathematicians, computer scientist and analyst and thanks to their work in the last 60 year, you have access to a systems of several orders of magnitude more efficient and secure when you buy a videogame online."
That really fucking inspired me.
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