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Subject: Re: Professional Chess Engines in C/C++ ???

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 16:08:48 12/24/02

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On December 24, 2002 at 16:36:56, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 24, 2002 at 16:25:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Junior (former SSDF #1) was written in C++.  From Amir Ban's comments, it is
>>also clear that he chose an object model.
>
>I once emailed Amir about this C vs. C++ subject, because I heard that he used
>C++. He recommended using C++, but avoiding the slow dynamics (allocation on the
>fly, virtual functions, etc.). So while he may use an object model, he doesn't
>use all of the object oriented features.
>

Of course not, why would he?
People have a strange view of C++ based on old myths.

/David



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