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Subject: Re: Any idea's on how long it takes to learn C++, then create a chessmonster

Author: David Hanley

Date: 16:39:06 12/10/01

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Sure.  I think in a month or two my lisp program will be solid/strong enough to
make it interesting for people to look at.

There's disadvantages to doing it in lisp, mostly in the area of speed.  But i
think that worst it's a 2X penalty.  Hashing takes a bit of thought, because
there's generally no cheap "big integer."

On to other hand, i think it's easily one half to one third the size of a
similar C program, and it also takes a lot less time per line of code.  For
example, to extract the material balance of the board, using one macro i have,
it's just

(loop-over-board sum (piece-value square))

dave



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