Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:09:38 08/11/00
Go up one level in this thread
On August 10, 2000 at 23:20:42, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On August 10, 2000 at 21:46:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Either way will work. your way is the way suggested by software engineering. >>And your way will have less debugging. Your way will make it hard to evaluate > >If your program has no check extension and no quiescence search, how is it any >easier to debug? > >-Tom It has less code to go wrong. I started off writing my move generator and nothing else. I debugged that until I was sure it worked. That is far easier than writing the whole thing, then debugging several thousand lines of new and untested code, all at one time. This is why the top-down approach became so popular years ago...
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.