Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:04:01 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 12:18:49, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 17, 2004 at 11:59:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 17, 2004 at 11:49:45, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>>Of course Crafty runs on all the boxes you mentioned, >>> >>>Not including Palm OS, unless I have missed something? Aren't Crafty's >>>memory requirements a bit on the big side for the current generation >>>of Palm OS units? >> >>Don't know. It runs on the IPAQ device. > >The IPAQs has more memory available for programs, I think, but I could >be wrong. > >>However, this isn't an issue of C vs Lisp. This is an issue of the internal >>design of Crafty. > >I know. I asked only because I was curious, and because I would like to >see Crafty run on my Palm. My question was tangential to the discussion. > >>Were Crafty written in Lisp it would be no smaller, > >I would rather expect it to be bigger, in fact. > >>>I wouldn't use any dynamic memory in a chess program, therefore the problem >>>of garbage collection shouldn't enter the picture. >>> >> >>So you are talking about writing a C-like program inside the syntax of Lisp? > >Not quite. The program would behave similarly to a C program at runtime, >but could still use the high-level constructs of Lisp at compile-time. >This is a very important point. > >>:) >> >>I've seen students write APL programs that look like Fortran, complete with >>loops and array indexing, so I suppose anything is possible. :) > >Yes, it is. I have seen lots of Lisp programs which look like C. :-) > >Tord "to the man with a hammer, _everything_ looks like a nail." --- anonymous. Seems to fit programming languages as well as "tools". :)
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