[TomOnTheRun]

Again, show me what this guy invented ANY programing language that gave way to development of all computers in use today.

So providing the groundwork and the theory is that makes other creations and inventions possible is... useless? Not as valued a contribution?

[edweena]

Why do people think Einstein was so great? He never built a nuclear power plant or atomic bomb. He just wrote papers with numbers and words on them?