Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 09:18:49 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 11:59:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 17, 2004 at 11:49:45, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>>Of course Crafty runs on all the boxes you mentioned, >> >>Not including Palm OS, unless I have missed something? Aren't Crafty's >>memory requirements a bit on the big side for the current generation >>of Palm OS units? > >Don't know. It runs on the IPAQ device. The IPAQs has more memory available for programs, I think, but I could be wrong. >However, this isn't an issue of C vs Lisp. This is an issue of the internal >design of Crafty. I know. I asked only because I was curious, and because I would like to see Crafty run on my Palm. My question was tangential to the discussion. >Were Crafty written in Lisp it would be no smaller, I would rather expect it to be bigger, in fact. >>I wouldn't use any dynamic memory in a chess program, therefore the problem >>of garbage collection shouldn't enter the picture. >> > >So you are talking about writing a C-like program inside the syntax of Lisp? Not quite. The program would behave similarly to a C program at runtime, but could still use the high-level constructs of Lisp at compile-time. This is a very important point. >:) > >I've seen students write APL programs that look like Fortran, complete with >loops and array indexing, so I suppose anything is possible. :) Yes, it is. I have seen lots of Lisp programs which look like C. :-) Tord
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