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Subject: Re: Any chess programs using Forth?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:29:00 09/19/01

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On September 19, 2001 at 20:04:42, Ian Osgood wrote:
[snip]
>When I saw how deplorable their Forth chess program was (no quiescence, eval is
>simply material and kings on first rank until the endgame), I started porting
>TSCP to Forth for fun.  What a headache!  Migrating from C to Forth is hard; you
>lose types and structures and local variables and all your C idioms.

Wirth said it best:
"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs"

I've never programmed in Forth, and now that I hear of that "non-trivial"
limitation, let me add that I never will.

Even assembler has data structures.
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• Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Dan Andersson 02:32:06 09/20/01
  • Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Ian Osgood 10:07:40 09/20/01
    • Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Dan Andersson 11:15:49 09/20/01
      • Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Ian Osgood 16:08:23 09/21/01
      • Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Dan Andersson 11:34:32 09/20/01
• Re: Any chess programs using Forth? Roy Brunjes 20:31:42 09/19/01

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