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Subject: Re: Experience of chess programmers

Author: Jason Waugh

Date: 10:36:41 06/27/03

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On June 27, 2003 at 12:41:04, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Even if you don't consider your engine strong, I'd still like to hear what kind
>of programming experience you have, even if it's, "I learned QBasic in high
>school." That's where I started :)


I'm working on an engine, not finished yet.  It's in Perl, because that's what
tweaks my curiosity and allows me freedom to invent, but once I have a thorough
understanding and am happy with the way it is working, I will port it to C for
the speed - or more likely just turn the critical functions into C using the
Inline::C module for perl.

I have high school education in programming, some university education in
programming, and I do my fair share of development as a function of my job (in
addition to having to manage developers).

However, everything I know I learned from my Commodore 64.  Everything else has
just been a small appendage to that massive foundation.  I get the same feel
from the chess engine community here on CCC as I did back in the days of the 64
and BBSs - people just doing what they love and enjoy, and learning what to do
simultaneous with doing it, all while helping each other and freely sharing
information.  Only difference is in the number of helpful people that have
already "been there done that."



Jason W.



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