Comment Re:850 meters??? (Score 1) 286
I'll 1-up you on that one:
While technically not a dam, the Dutch Afsluitdijk is 20 miles long,
and was finished in 1932.
Comment Re:Can you think of any famous female programmers? (Score 1) 347
Speaking of the Turing Award, why isn't Alan Turing on the list of famous programmers?
I realise that it is up for debate whatever he was a programmer by modern standards, but there simply weren't any good computers to program on in his days. However, he (probably) wrote the first computer Chess-program in 1948, for a computer that didn't even excist at the time.
He deserves to be on the list, IMHO.
I realise that it is up for debate whatever he was a programmer by modern standards, but there simply weren't any good computers to program on in his days. However, he (probably) wrote the first computer Chess-program in 1948, for a computer that didn't even excist at the time.
He deserves to be on the list, IMHO.
