Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:28:39 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 15:40:09, David Hanley wrote: > >Robert. > >Everyone had their chess program written in C/C++. > >I'd say use something else. C/C++ is really a high-level assembler. It >sacrifices a lot of programmer time to make your code run faster. But even >running twice as fast won't make your prgoram a LOT stronger. But it will make >your programming take a LOT longer. I have seen studies that indicate this generalization is not true. See (for instance): http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf >If 1600 if your goal, you can do it in java, and a lot of your work will be a >lot easier. Java is plenty fast for a 1600 program on modern hardware. This I will agree with. >Also: > >smalltalk Someday, someone may even invent a toolset that will work with it. ;-) >lisp Be prepared to purchase a new parenthesis key for your keyboard once a month. ;-) >SML What's SML? Is it related to ML? >Are all things to look at! > >dave
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