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Subject: Re: Visual Basic for chess program

Author: James Swafford

Date: 19:37:51 11/11/00

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I'm not sure that you can write a console program w/ Visual Basic.
If you're writing your own GUI, this isn't a big deal.  If you plan
on using Winboard as an interface, you're in trouble.  I could
be wrong, but check it out...

--
James


On November 11, 2000 at 20:10:05, Ray MacFadyen wrote:

>My son who is doing year 12 at high school needed help with a program he was
>writing in visual basic.So I bought myself a book called "Idiots guide to visual
>Basic".After a bit of reading and experimenting we managed to complete his
>project satisfactorily.Since then I have written a couple of programs for myself
>which were Hangman and Tictactoe,I found this very enjoyable and a lot of
>fun.Now my thoughts turn to writing a chess program (I must be crazy).
>My question is should I continue with visual basic or should I learn visual
>c,any comments on the advantages and disadvantages of visual c over visual basic
>would be appreciated.
>Thanks in advance
>Ray MacFadyen



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