Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 08:15:59 11/12/00
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Hi! >The advantages you list are all true, but you neglected to list the >disadvantages. C has a steep learning curve and an unforgiving nature that >places a lot responsibility on the programmer. I think he should stick with VB. >If he wants to get really serious later, he can always rewrite it in C, which >will be easier to write if he already has a working version in VB. It is true that I didn't and also can't say anything about the learning. I have mainly used assembler and compared to that C is very easy. I think that C is not _that_ hard to learn, at least if you can get a good book. C is very logical programming language, maybe the most logical of all. When you understand the basic C stuff, it is very easy to learn more - everything follows the same principles. And I think that chess program is not the hardest thing to program considering the complexity of it. You need quite simple expressions, simple structures...But because of efficiency C leaves much to programmer to take care of. It is easy (not as easy as in assembler) to program bugs, but usually you can spot them, at least with a debugger. But yes, VB is probably also a good choise, so have I heard. Severi
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