Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 15:12:05 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 16:28:39, Dann Corbit wrote:
[quoting David Hanley:]
>> lisp
>
> Be prepared to purchase a new parenthesis key for your keyboard once a month.
> ;-)
Ah, but think of all the wear and tear it saves on the
semicolon key. Unless you put comments in your code, of
course. :-)
>
>> SML
>
> What's SML? Is it related to ML?
SML = Standard ML. I would recommend OCaml in preference, though,
since the OCaml compiler produces staggeringly fast code.
*
I wrote a chess program in Python recently. It's astoundingly
slow and it has a few bugs, but it only took me a weekend and
it plays well enough for its purpose. Its purpose is to provide
a weak but semi-plausible opponent for a 5-year-old friend of
mine and for his father (who is somewhat older than 5 but claims
to be no good at chess). Alpha-beta, piece-square tables, qsearch,
and basically nothing else. If the 5-year-old improves faster
than I'm expecting then I may have to do some more work. :-)
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