From: Manuel Gomez <mgrojo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:15:33 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2007-11-17T06:15:33-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1da97949-ce32-4f91-bf6f-294f936e6bae@b36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
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On 16 nov, 13:51, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> At least according to:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/german_code_breaker_defeats_c...
>
> That's got to be worth some marketing mileage to the Ada community!
>
> Well done Joachim, if you're reading this!!
> Cheers
> -- Martin
Choosing well the language has not being his only skill. See this
quote from http://www.reuters.com/article/mapNews/idUSL1665121720071116
| "It's a brilliant piece of work, really really impressive," said
| Andrew Clark, director of Britain's National Museum of Computing,
| which designed the challenge and is overseeing the running of
| Colossus, based at Bletchley Park outside London.
|
| "He's used a program that is highly optimized for this task and he's
| designed it very well.
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2007-11-16 12:51 Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge! Martin
2007-11-16 12:55 ` Martin
2007-11-16 16:09 ` Ian Clifton
2007-11-16 17:20 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2007-11-16 23:03 ` Jerry
2007-11-17 0:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-17 14:15 ` Manuel Gomez [this message]
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