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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 UbuntuLinux · · Score: -1, Troll

    I didn't understand what you meant by your comment, until I saw the smiley ('=P') at the end, and then it all made sense! You were making a joke, haha! That was really funny. I'm not very good at telling jokes, but I am thinking of sending an email to my freind's daughter who's computer I have been fixing, and I wanted to add something to make it funny - do you think if I added a smiley to the end of some sentences in my email it would fool her into thinking I had a sense of humour?