Contest #3 Expert
petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> you really ought to have
> bit the bullet and picked
> just one answer (he says, ducking 
Without grammar-aware code, picking one answer would have been at worst
a random determination and at best a "best guess" (using
letter-frequency tables, etc.).
The contest was for a deciphering program. My program fits that bill
perfectly. Now, maybe Kat could dress it up with some
grammar-recognition that would allow it to recognize non-sensical vs.
sensible sentences, but that was beyond the scope of the contest.
The CIA would never leave this kind of thing to a PC anyway (not with
today's technology)... they would want all possible options and then
hand that list to a human for the final filtering.
> From what has happened to both you and me, I begin to think the
> competition should have allowed a chance to bug fix, especially
> looking at one of the quotes Rob himself picked!
I agree that one round of modifications might've done some real good
regarding speed, but I doubt it would have changed the placement
results. I've got a 100% result on all 5 ciphers in a matter of seconds
(depending on PC :) ).
> Anyway, congratulations, a fine program sir.
Thanks, Pete.
Here's some test ciphers (just for fun)... How do you do with these:
Zag, fro, ion i flagstone.
or this:
immigrant whisk pisces an beds oily
-ck
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