Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:35:26 08/09/00
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On August 09, 2000 at 17:39:47, robert blackwell wrote: >Good day everyone! Im wondering which platforms, or languages are good for >learning to program, and or create a chess program?. I would also like to find a >free download, but will but if needed.Just dont tell my wife! :> Thanks in >advance! Robert By popularity, computer chess programs are written in: 1. C (The vast lion's share) 2. C++ (quite a few) 3. Pascal/Delphi/Modula (Two or three that I know of) 4. Assembly (Two or three that I know of) 5. BASIC (I know of one [Rabbit is BASIC, if I recall correctly]) 6. Fortran (I know of one [not currently developed -- legacy approach]) If you are fluent in C or C++, I would suggest one of those languages. 99% of the example code you see here will be in one or the other of those formats. If you write in an ANSI/ISO manner, then the platform does not matter much (except for speed, of course). The most popular environments are probably Win32 followed by Linux.
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