Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 12:02:47 01/11/05
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Just as Duncan wrote the most common languages for chess are C and C++. So it would be a good thing to learn one of those. There are also a lot of books, sites and a large community of experienced users. A good choice. Programming in VB is OK too. Lots of books and a large community. But it's no more than OK in my book. But if I would recommend choosing some modern language like C# and Java with all the attendant trimmings like garbage collection, strong typing, objects, large libraries, large community and very good debugging features. But if you want to choose the dark side and learn real computer science I dare you to use a functional programming language like Scheme, Common Lisp, SML or the lightning fast OCaml. I'm currently in the process of learning the functional language Alice (Inspired by SML, designed with bleeding edge state of the art design). And you shouldn't believe anyone that says functional programming is strange or academic. Witness Erlang which is used for large scale phone sytem programming. MvH Dan Andersson
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