Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:39:05 03/29/02
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On March 29, 2002 at 12:26:25, Ian Osgood wrote: >On March 29, 2002 at 10:27:56, Mark Abraham wrote: > >>I know this has been asked many times before in this thread...I have read >>through all the old posts regarding the topic. Never hurts to get a fresh round >>though! >> >>For arguments sake, assume I am starting from scratch and that I don't have any >>language preference. >> >>The primary reason I am reposting the question is that the old posts have pretty >>much pointed me in many different directions, and gotten me even farther from >>choosing one. >> >>If you could list pros and cons for each language you are knowledgeable about >>that would be great! It seems everyone agrees the big choice starts at >>processing speed versus programming ease. >> >>Thanks for any opinions!!! > >Here's my uncontroversial opinion... ;) > >Forth. It's a good match to small exploratory problems such as your first chess >program. Example chess code at http://ultratechnology.com/chess.html . Free >development environments exist for all popular platforms. > >When development is complete, there exist asynchronous 25x multiprocessor chips >which run Forth natively, so you can build your own Deep Blue. > >So follow the crowd writing YACE in C. Or sally Forth. > >Ian Interesting and informative post! Terrible pun (which I love)!!
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