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

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:41:18 07/02/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 12:31:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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 :)

One of the best Prolog books (free):
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/prolog-course/

I think that Scheme will be more appropriate than Prolog, but who the hell uses
those prehistoric languages anyway (except a few university courses)?




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