Author: José Carlos
Date: 11:36:50 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 11:54:44, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On August 11, 2004 at 09:43:18, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On August 11, 2004 at 09:42:04, gerold daniels wrote: >> >>>what is the best to program a chess game in. c.c++,c#. which is the easy one to >>>learn and the best to program in. >> >>I predict you will get at least 4 different answers. ;) > >Here we go with one of them: > >For writing a chess engine you cannot expect to get a reasonably fast thing >without using C/C++. And when using C++ try to avoid some expensive features of >the language. Quoting Edsger Dijkstra: > >"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have >originated in California." > >Of course I disagree with that, as there are many benefiots in OOP. But still, >there is something in what he says :) > >If you are looking for easier languages (especially for building graphical user >interfaces), Java and C# are reasonable options. Java has the advantage that it >can run on any platform and is used by many major-league companies. On the other >hand .NET framework will already be present in Longhorn Windows, which will ease >the distribution of your programs. But at the moment, I would recommend Java >over C#. > >Finally, unlike Jose, I would recommend you to stay away from Visual Basic, or >any other thing that has the word BASIC in it. Again quoting Edsger Dijkstra: > >"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have >had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally >mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." > >and > >"Teaching BASIC should be a criminal offense." > >Visual Basic is a very advanced language in comparison to the primitive BASIC, >but still it does mentally mutilate you :) > > > >> >>Sargon That might be the reason why I'm mentally mutilated, as I first learnt BASIC for the Amstrad (some centuries ago). But from my mutilated perspective, learning process takes place from simple to difficult. Kids don't learn advanced mathematics before they learn to add and substract. Learning function calls and recursion and strings with an intuitive and friendly language like VB can't hurt IMO. Note that old BASIC was not friendly and intuitive, and I wouldn't recommend it, but VB is really easy. But I admit I'm not a teacher, and your experience is much more relevant than mine. The fact is that I can now program C, C++, Java, VB, BASIC, assembly, LISP, PROLOG, SQL, Delphi... and I don't feel the order in which I learnt them put extra difficulties in the learning process. José C.
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