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I've always wondered where these slippery slopes lead to.

I always spell his name wrong too.

Well Babbage never built his machine for a start and it was mechanical. He did build something, but his plans for something better that could be actually programmed never happened. He also wasn't the first person to build a mechanical machine to solve problems, since the Greeks got there first...

Rubbish.

How funny and wrong. Like others on here I had to study Turin in depth on my computer science masters. I had no idea about his work during the second world war, it wasn't even mentioned and neither was his conviction. He is known as the "Father of Modern Computing" and was the most important...

As it was on mine. Turing is the man, he did so much more than code breaking.