Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Martin]

At least according to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/german_code_breaker_defeats_colossus/

That's got to be worth some marketing mileage to the Ada community!

Well done Joachim, if you're reading this!!
Cheers
-- Martin

Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Martin]

On Nov 16, 12:51 pm, 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

And here is his code:

http://www.schlaupelz.de/SZ42/SZ42_software.html

Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Ian Clifton]

This was mentioned, and that Ada was used, on the BBC's flagship
"Today" news programme this morning.
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Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Alejandro R. Mosteo]

On 16 nov, 17:09, Ian Clifton <ian.clif...@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk>
wrote:
> This was mentioned, and that Ada was used, on the BBC's flagship
> "Today" news programme this morning.

Here are some comments from the author and the source code:

http://www.schlaupelz.de/SZ42/SZ42_software.html

Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Jerry]

On Nov 16, 5:51 am, 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

From the article:
"Schüth wrote specialist software in the tricky language of Ada...."

Dunno what to say.

Jerry

Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <a3d90315-b978-49d6-bbec-206b3dfb0271@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:
> On Nov 16, 5:51 am, 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
> 
> =46rom the article:
> "Sch=FCth wrote specialist software in the tricky language of Ada...."
> 
> Dunno what to say.

You say "writing in Ada qualifies one as a true expert" :-)

Re: Ada helps win WWII Crypto challenge!

[Manuel Gomez]

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.