Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:41:35 07/20/99
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On July 20, 1999 at 18:14:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 20, 1999 at 17:58:34, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>I'd be interested to hear what some of the people directly involved with the >>development of chess software think about Linux. >> >>Specifically, do you think that it is now/will be a platform worth developing >>for. From a layman's standpoint, I would think that it would not be too >>difficult to port an engine written in ANSI C over to Linux, then use Tkl or >>something like it to build an interface. >> >>Also, do you think that the development tools are sufficiently mature to >>undertake something like this? >There are already a large number of very good chess programs for Linux. >Crafty and Phalanx spring to mind. With an xboard front end, they have an >interface that is second to none also. > >>But, I realize that not all engines are coded in C... As a side question, what >>is the percentage of chess engines coded in C, and in assembler? >Most chess programs are written in C, with smaller numbers in C++, Pascal, BASIC >and Assembly. majority of commercial chess engines is still assembly, although that's slowly changing to C. Majority of *all* engines is C. Like 9 out of 10 are in C.
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