TURING!!!!!!!111

manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:06 am

BBC linky

7 June, 2004 march the 50th anniversary of the death of Alan Turing, who, on 7 June 1954, killed himself by eating an apple he laced with cyanide. He was a mathematician, code breaker, and computer pioneer.

Wait, what did you think the topic meant?

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:46 am

The only type of Turing I knew was the Turing test and it's inventor (Alan).

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:26 pm

That’s sad!

Think of how much more he could have done if it weren’t for those closed-minded Britons. Œstrogen injections... Oiy!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:02 pm

Wow first time I hear of programmers killing themselves! then again, I would too if I had to debug IE.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:46 pm

Wow, I didn't even know Alan Turing commited suicide. Guess all the bugs in the original turing got the better of him

. Wow, that's interesting. This is the kind of stuff they should teach in school. Man, what a way to go too. What does the apple and cyanide have to do with it. If I were him, I would have at least eaten something NOT affiliated with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He must have been a fan of Walt Disney movies. Should have put cyanide in a donut or a bowl of ice cream or something.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:28 pm

Haha true. Maybe it explains those wacked bugs in the dos version of turing.

It would sort of creep me out to use a program made by someone who commited suicide that way.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:36 pm

Ya, that's true. But kind of makes it interesting. While programming, you can lean over to the guy next to you, put on a sinister face and say: "The programmer that made turing killed himself with cyanide, and now his spirit haunts the programs we make". (That would explain the scary "Turing Gremlins" that appear). Oh, by the way, if you wanna have some fun with bugs in turing, try this. In the old DOS version of turing, go to open or save a file. When the menu appears, press the HOME button and watch turing go nuts. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to get out of it (Or ALT + TAB) whichever.

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