Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 18:40:38 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 21:00:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >On August 12, 2004 at 20:43:30, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On August 12, 2004 at 20:23:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On August 12, 2004 at 16:35:38, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>How many C# chess programs are there? >>> >>>I don't know. How many? >> >>Had I knew the answer, I wouldn't have asked you. I'm not aware of any chess >>engine written in C#, but I thought that since you are the proponent of using C# >>for chess, you might know... > >I'm not a proponent of using C# for chess. > >Here is what I said: > >>In the short term, at least, the C# programmer will have a very big advantage >>and the C/C++ programmer will be struggling to play catch up. > >That is true, but it doesn't mean I would recommend using C# for a chess >program. > >For most of us, even the commercial guys, our chess programs are lifetime >hobbies So you want to be crippled by a slow language, which is owned by one company, and can run only on the OS offered by that company, for your entire life? >so we can overcome the disadvantage of having more overhead in the early >stages. "early stages" or through the engine's entire life?!
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