Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 06:24:44 08/04/98
Go up one level in this thread
On August 04, 1998 at 02:59:30, Pat King wrote: >Actually, there's a lot of "serious" development done in VB in the business Don't confuse "some" with "a lot." Think about how many programs were written before VB even existed. If you knew about C or C++, you would realize that they're not exactly different languages. As for writing an object oriented chess program, good luck getting it running nearly as fast as a program written in C or assembly. As for being able to write a chess program in any language, you're absolutely right, of course. Chess programs have been written in the Excel macro language and RPL, the language used by Hewlett Packard calculators. However, if you don't know C, you're out in the cold. Take all the public chess program source code you can find. Now, what percentage of it is written in C? What percentage in Pascal? In Basic? Cheers, Tom
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.