[GAP] Regarding Cyril's Reply to My Rant

[John Barnes]

Indeed it was mentioned on Radio 4 news from the BBC yesterday morning. He
mentioned Ada and of course the interviewer showed extreme ignorance.

John



----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyrille Comar" <comar at adacore.com>
To: "GNAT Academic Program discussion list" <gap at gnat.info>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [GAP] Regarding Cyril's Reply to My Rant


> 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.
>  >>
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