On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:58:36AM -0700, Erich Schubert wrote: > Oh, and Turing was gay, wasn't he? (yes, no statistical significance) > I remember he killed himself because of being discriminated... one of > the brightest mathematicians and computer scientists of all time. > Actually I guess that many people believe - probably related to the > 'less attractive' claim above - that mathematicians are more likely to > be/become gay. Yes, what I wrote is bullshit. Probably as much bullshit > as this hormones thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing has a section "Prosecution for homosexuality and Turing's death", which is quite a sad and upsetting story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Byron is something you probably forgot to mention about early programmers ;) Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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