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Subject: Re: Writing a meta-language to describe eval function

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:31:06 07/02/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 09:50:50, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>On July 01, 2003 at 22:56:58, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>> I'm partial to PRECCX. It might not be developed any more. So it's stable ;)
>>But it is a fully functional *very* extended BNF. Its main selling point is
>>inherited and synthetic attributes. And meta-production rules are allowed. One
>>neat thing is that you could actually do almost everything in it. A-B and
>>Q-search, eval, extensions and pruning if you put in an effort to do it.
>>http://www.afm.sbu.ac.uk/precc/
>
>Very interesting ! Looks like there is lots of terrain for me to investigate in
>the land of grammars/compilers :) It is a nice warm feeling !
>
>To be truthful writing a meta-language looks like a great project :) It is kind
>of a not-so-explored area where I could add my personal contribution to chess
>programming (of course there are CHEVAL written by J.C.Weil and CHE/CHE++ from
>Nimzo which are very similar to what I want to do, but not quite the same and
>anyway they were pretty much closed source).
>
>Andrei

Why not learn prolog. I have a very expensive book here which you can get for a
few $ from me about it. I want to get rid of it ASAP :)





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