Quote from: ButchHashidy on January 07, 2014, 05:27:25 AM

you were really a cryptanalyst in 1952? very interesting, maybe someday you could share some stories with us.

Heh - the picture in my avatar is of Alan Turing, a hero of mine. The queen of England pardoned him the other day, by the way.
I imagine the pardon said something like "Sorry about the castration thing. Too bad it drove you to suicide.
Oh, and thanks for cracking the Nazi communication code so we could win the war.
Come to think of it, thanks to you and von Neumann for inventing computers - they came in handy too."

That's that then.

As for me, I got my first programming job 47 years ago. Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Whatever.