Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada

An anonymous reader writes "Colossus Cipher Challenge winner Joachim Schueth talks about why he settled on Ada as his language of choice to unravel a code transmitted from the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Germany, from a Lorenz SZ42 Cipher machine (used by the German High Command to relay secret messages during the World War II). 'Ada allowed me to concisely express the algorithms I wanted to implement.'"

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Re:I had to learn ADA in college

[Anonymous Coward]

I had a similar experience. My teacher told me FREE software could pay, and demonstrated by hooking me up with a paid summer job porting ghostscript to 64-bit alpha (at the time, GNU coding guidelines mandated 32-bit only, so it was a huge pain). They flew me to MIT to meet with RMS and the FSF people that summer. That really opened my eyes (not to mention my anus...). Now, years later I make a living writing "FREE" software and working as a gay prostitute.