# Visit to Bletchley Park at JuliaCon

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789>\
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**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789 "2018-06-19T18:22:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789/1 "2018-06-19T18:22:32Z")

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I really dont want to muscle in on the Julia 2018 section.  
Bletchley Park - home of codebreaking and the site of Bombe (cracking Enigma) and Colossus (cracking the Lorenz cypher) is an hour’s train journey from UCL.

> **[The National Museum of Computing](https://www.tnmoc.org/)**
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> Home of the worlds oldest computers

> **[Cryptography is the Bombe: Britain's Enigma-cracker on display in new home](https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/19/tnmoc_bombe_gallery_opening/)**
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> Replica war-winner now in Bletchley Park's historic Block H

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**Author:** ![ExpandingMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/expandingman/32/866_2.png) [@ExpandingMan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ExpandingMan)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789/2 "2018-06-19T18:32:33Z")

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I’m not likely to be in the UK any time soon, but I’m a big Neal Stephenson fan, and I highly recommend [Cryptonomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon) as a little adventure for those who won’t get to be there.

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789/3 "2018-06-19T18:56:00Z")

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I have not read Cryptonomicon for many years… Ooooh… a Perl script just ready for recoding in a more recent language…

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**Author:** ![ScottPJones](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/scottpjones/32/146_2.png) [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/visit-to-bletchley-park-at-juliacon/11789/4 "2018-06-20T05:00:41Z")

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I’ll read that on the flight there! Thanks for the tip!