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Subject: Re: Visual Basic for chess program

Author: Lenard Spencer

Date: 17:21:38 11/12/00

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On November 12, 2000 at 05:00:02, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>  I'm thinking of throwing a chess playing program together in qbasic, you
>>  know, the one that comes with Win95. That way it's free, so I don't lose
>>anything if it all falls over. No graphics, I just want to see if I can
>>  generate moves.
>
>With qbasic??? You must be crazy ;) But, you can get many free C++ compilers
>(free Borland C++ compiler, GCC...) and IDEs (VIDE, EMACS...) for them. I use
>Borland C with EMACS, works great! Learn C, you wont regret. No, write a qbasic
>ches program first and _then_ try it with C. It could be maybe harder this way,
>but you would see the benefits of procedural programming, and there are many
>benefits indeed...
>
>Severi

Hmmm.., then I must be certifiable for writing one with Atari BASIC then...
 (... Yes, nurse, I'm coming....)   dB^)



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