From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.180.101 with SMTP id dn5mr26380119pbc.5.1418660817922; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:26:57 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.23.208 with SMTP id 74mr37972qgp.23.1418660817551; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:26:57 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h15no21947498igd.0!news-out.google.com!r1ni50qat.1!nntp.google.com!w8no8088239qac.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:26:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=197.87.225.175; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 197.87.225.175 References: <1a2fea61-bcc1-43a9-b6e3-edf474308402@googlegroups.com> <5d31987b-b96b-481b-ac4d-f87114257bb4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <216dc738-5ec5-4808-b215-7d31d4d676a5@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto. From: mrvmurray@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:26:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 1886 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3733407863 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24010 Date: 2014-12-15T08:26:57-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, 15 December 2014 18:17:18 UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote: > People who programmed the Ferranti F1600 series of military computers > could count up to 31 on the fingers of one hand (the register-address > field in the instruction was 5 bits). *Like* I can do my 9-times-table with both hands by hiding one finger at a time. M PS: I can program in Ada too. I'm a software engineer, but Ada is a comparatively new language for me. So far I haven't done a big job in it, but I did use it to write a brute-force cipher-breaker to decipher O'Byrne's ciphergrams. Trivial. m --