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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.