Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:33:10 11/07/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 22:58:55, leonid wrote: >On November 07, 1999 at 20:33:59, Geoff Bull wrote: > >>On November 05, 1999 at 17:14:01, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On November 03, 1999 at 21:08:47, Geoff Bull wrote: >>> >>>>On November 02, 1999 at 13:04:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>>>If you are trying to develop a chess program, use C. >>>> >>>>C is not the only language in the world. >>> >>>The title of the thread is "assembler vs C", so please forgive me for >>>restricting the domain to these two languages, since this is what the original >>>poster was asking about. >>> >> >>Maybe so. >>But I thought your advice was overly narrow, and maybe that it had not >>occurred to the originally poster that they had other alternatives to >>consider. >>If your advice had been: >>"If you are trying to develop a chess program, don't use assembler" >>few would disagree. >> >>GB > >If you write your chess program only for fun, use every language that you could >like. But if you expect that "others" should observe your happiness, use >Assembler. Only this language will give your game extra ply over others. It will >naturally induce into your game some extra glamoring brillances able to capture >the attention of human eyes. And since the human is a social animal that crave >for attention, Assembler is the only natural language for him to express >himself. > >Leonid. In order for your program to win, first your program has to play. Writing it from scratch in assembler is the least productive way to do this, unless your last name happens to be Morsch. Dave
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