[GAP] Regarding Cyril's Reply to My Rant

[Cyrille Comar]

Riehle, Richard (CIV) wrote:
> As usual, your perspectives are greatly appreciated.


By the way, Richard, I have been made aware of this nice story today 
which should help you see the future of Ada slightly more brightly. See 
below link and quote. It is very gratifying for AdaCore to see bright 
developers discover successfully Ada in 2007!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/german_code_breaker_defeats_colossus/
http://www.schlaupelz.de/SZ42/SZ42_software.html

Here is a quote from the second link:

<<
After years of C programming and trying other languages (like C++, Java, 
Haskell, Python), I had started to learn Ada early in 2007. This 
powerful and beautiful language has become my favourite, and I decided 
to do the code development as a programming exercise in Ada.

During November 15, I could receive some of the Cipher Challenge 
messages and decrypt them after breaking the key (wheel settings). All 
sourcecode used is provided below. The Ada sources were compiled with 
GCC/GNAT.
 >>