Author: Janosch Zwerensky
Date: 16:21:33 12/28/01
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Hi, >I had the same idea as you, but I have so many other things that I'd like to get >done, that chess programming has been put on hold. I'm not a programmer at all, >so I would have choosen VB as my platform also, as this seems to be the most >English-like (and thus non-programmer-friendly) of the higher languages. I think Scheme is easier to learn than any basic dialect, even though on the surface it might not at all look like an "English-like" a language. I also believe it might be easier to build complex programs in Scheme than in Basic. In addition, one can get fast programs out of Scheme code (though not ones quite as fast as corresponding C solutions) if one uses a strongly optimizing compiler like Bigloo or Stalin. I also think that Scheme is a good language to learn programming recursive things in *gg*. If you're seeking for English-like higher programming languages, I'd recommend you take a look at Haskell. Because of speed issues, I think it is completely unsuitable for game programming though, at least when we're not talking completely trivial games. Finally, to someone who has little experience in programming and would like to implement a game of strategy, I wouldn't recommend they do chess as their first game. I think it would be more satisfying in this case to implement a perfect Nim player or a perfect tic-tac-toe-player or a towers of hanoi solver first and to *then* move on to more complex projects. Regards, Janosch.
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