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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:44:03 12/11/01

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On December 10, 2001 at 18:12:05, Gareth McCaughan wrote:

>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 somehow hadn't heard of Caml before.  I looked up O'Caml at
http://www.ocaml.org/ and found it to be very interesting.  How would you
compare it to Python (or Jython)?


>                               *
>
>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...



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