Author: leonid
Date: 05:47:26 01/28/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 04:03:46, Steve Maughan wrote: >Leonid, > >>>XiniX is a chessprogram I wrote in Delphi. It finished 10th ( out of 14 ) at >>>the last dutch championship. After the first weekend I was on shared 3rd >>>place, the second weekend disaster stroke. >> >>Not bad! And how performant, just your own opinion, is program done in Delphi >>compare with the same code written in C? >> >>I ask this because I have the impression that not that many people use Delphi. >>It is C that is used almost by everybody. I personaly have not idea about >>Delphi at all. > >Delphi is the Windows version of Pascal. Now I have clear idea. I remember for some time using Pascal 7. I found its "talking" more logical that in C. Problem then with Pascal was that it was not able to go beyond 80286 instructions when C permitted them. Now it is for sure not a problem. What I found the most nice in Pascal that it could reconize easely all Assembler instruction by just indicating start and the end of them. In C you was (for some strange reason) obligated to indicate for every line Assembler instructions by "asm". It's excellent for chess programming! >When it comes to speed of EXE it's in the same ballpark as C and MUCH faster >than VB. It's also much easier to learn than C and the development times seem >to be faster. I also think it's easier to read and maintain but that's ny >opinion. >I've written a chess program in Delphi although it does play chess it's still >very much a work in progress. Mine is probably in the same state, more exactly I am not with it was a moment. Other Delphi programs apart from XiniX are Ikarus >(probably the strongest), Crux and Holmes. I don't remember all the programs that I have seen but one was written in Pascal a looked like very well executed. It was created in Finland. Salute, Leonid. >Regards, > >Steve
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