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Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada

Posted by timothy on from the ada-operiert-die-blinkenlights dept.

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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  1. Re:Let the raging tardfight commence by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    He should have used a real programming language like Java or VB.Net.
    Pffft. Real men write programs like this:

    $ cat >/bin/myprogram
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  2. I like the choice. by DrWho520 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use a masochistic language to break a German code...groovy.

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  3. Re:ADA Resurgence? by Skeptical1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ada is not a backward language. Ada is a palindrome.

  4. Re:Concise??!! by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't imagine using the words concise and Ada in the same sentence.


    Perhaps you should read what you just wrote.
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