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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:29:41 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 15:40:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On www.iocc.org, one can even find chess related programs. IIRC, one recent
>winner was some variant of chess (bughouse?).
>
>One of my other favorites was a Basic interpreter in 25 lines or so, that could
>play lunar lander (anybody can remember that game? We had it on one Commodore
>computer in the late 70ties).

I remember the program to solve the 8-queens problem. All I know is, it worked
:)

Anyone have any idea what the smallest source code is to a program that plays
legal chess? I would guess playing other, simpler games would allow for smaller
code, since chess has all of those special cases.

• Re: Any reason to use C? Zach Wegner 00:25:54 07/31/03
  • Re: Any reason to use C? Russell Reagan 07:31:29 07/31/03
    • Re: Any reason to use C? Dieter Buerssner 14:40:20 07/31/03
      • Re: Any reason to use C? har har Gerd Isenberg 14:57:55 07/31/03
        • Re: Any reason to use C? har har Dieter Buerssner 15:05:35 07/31/03
          • As far as I'm concerned, using SED is definitely cheating. Dann Corbit 19:03:20 07/31/03
    • Re: Any reason to use C? Dieter Buerssner 14:27:16 07/31/03
  • Re: Any reason to use C? Uri Blass 02:05:34 07/31/03
• Re: Any reason to use C? Dann Corbit 13:43:50 07/29/03
  • Re: Any reason to use C? Sune Fischer 14:07:09 07/29/03

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