Re: A Newbie to the group.

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 15/06/2010 19:42, in article
2dfafa54-b744-4670-b85a-2d59d850a0a1@q12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com,
"adacrypt" <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 15, 7:33�pm, adacrypt <austin.oby...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 7:11�pm, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
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>>> On 15/06/2010 16:43, in article
>>> 26d9422f-e704-458b-a6eb-c7ec70a28...@q12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com,
>> 
>>> "adacrypt" <austin.oby...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ... I choose to learn Ada-95 in order to implement my
>>>> brainwave of factoring three-dimensional vectors and using three-
>>>> dimensional space as the encryption environment in cryptography - that
>>>> had been suggested to me by an Iraqi mathematician who had read my
>>>> work in factoring vectors and I was convinced that Ada-95 was the only
>>>> language for this ...
>> 
>>> Why?
>> 
>>> --
>>> Bill Findlay
>>> <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I take you mean why did I think Ada was the more suitable language?
>> 
>> I had already done some casual work on factorising large numbers in
>> Ada-83. I had been introduced to cryptography by one Dr. Chalabi who I
>> had asked to read my stuff on vector factoring (see "Factoring of
>> Vectors in Vector Cryptography"http://www.adacrypt.com)-he was
>> active in cryptography - I soon saw an algorithm in vector factoring
>> that is a one-way function in mathematics that is imminently suitable
>> for cryptography - it was pure instinct from there onwards but I was
>> convinced that the system structures of Ada-95 were ideal for what I
>> wanted to do in cryptography. �The mathematical algorithm was very
>> transparent to me but it was going to be a problem at the time to
>> implement it in Ada due largely to my inexperience of programming in
>> Ada-95 - I repeat that mathematical instinct was the driving force -
>> its the only thing I claim to have in abundance - I have taught myself
>> enough Ada just to complete this work - I am a retired engineer and
>> although I revere Ada programming I have no reason to go any deeper
>> into it in a general way - adacrypt- Hide quoted text -
>> 
>> - Show quoted text -
> 
> Also,
> 
> I have no idea how to proceed with any topic that you may think worth
> expounding at some higher level - if you see any potential perhaps you
> would let me know explicitly - I'm a bit slow on the uptake - adcrypt

You are "convinced" that Ada was in some way "ideal".
I simply ask what is it about Ada that made you consider it ideal?

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk