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

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 10:13:04 07/02/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 12:41:18, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>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)?

He was trying irony.
He succeded in beeing rude.

Way to go Vincent !





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