Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 04:14:31 11/14/98
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On November 13, 1998 at 12:48:04, Tord Romstad wrote: >On November 11, 1998 at 18:58:37, Don Dailey wrote: > >>On November 11, 1998 at 18:33:58, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > >>>Oh dear - the dreaded C language again. I may be unfashionable, but I like >>>programming in Basic. I am game for learning to use a new operating system, but >>>not for learning a new language at the same time. >> >>You're not unfashionable. Stay with the language and OS that works >>best for you. Nothing wrong with basic. > >Right. One day I will probably write a chess program in Common Lisp, just >to prove that it is perfectly possible to write very fast programs using >this most elegant of all programming languages... > >Tord Sounds interesting! I think that most languages have at least some very good features, even if they may have some not-so-good ones as well, and when you really get familiar with its strengths and weaknesses you can get the most out of it. I find that with Basic, and if I identify a bottleneck, there is always Assembler to spice it up! I always find it encouraging to hear of people programming chess in something other than the ubiquitous C - makes me feel that I'm not completely alone! I don't know much about LISP, but I have heard of it before. I believe it specialises in operations on lists? I expect that there are several places where a chess program could be organised to take advantage of that. Best wishes, Roberto
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