Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:07:59 06/27/03
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On June 27, 2003 at 12:41:04, Russell Reagan wrote: >I'm interested to learn what the programming experience is of people who have >written strong chess programs. > >For instance, what did the commercial engine authors do before they were full >time chess programmers? Were they professional programmers in another field? > >What about people who have written strong amateur programs? Do they work as >professional programmers, or have professional programming experience? > >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 :) > >Thanks, >Russell I started in Computer Science in 1968, during the Summer. My program played its first move just before Christmas that year. I've been programming ever since. First, the languages. 1. Assembly for most anything starting with the IBM1620 and going thru the Cray supercomputers. 2. FORTRAN 3. COBOL 4. C (obviously) 5. Pascal 6. Lisp 7. Snobol4 8. basic 9. APL 10. Algol 11. Perl, etc if you want to include those (csh, etc). Second, the hardware: 1. IBM 1620 2. IBM 7090 3. IBM /360 4. RCA 301/3301/spectra 70 5. Xerox Sigma 6/7/9 6. Vax 7. Every type of Sun ever made from the 680x0 thru ultrasparcs 8. Sequent Balance (30 CPU SMP box) 9. Microprocessors (Intel 8008 thru current PIVs) 10. Alpha 11. IBM RS6000/etc 12. SGI 13. HP 14. Every Cray ever made (Cray-1 thru Cray-T90) 15. CDC 6600/7600/Cyber 176/Star 16. Oddball boxes like HP 2100A, TI TMS, etc. I built one of the first Altair 8800's, which was the first real "personal computer" ever. IE I have "been around the block". :)
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