Author: William Penn
Date: 03:20:04 02/24/05
It has been awhile but I used to do some programming for the Commodore 64 in Commodore Basic then manually translate it into Assembler. That gave the fastest code. Not the easiest way, but the best. Of course Basic compilers provided a reasonable speedup, but nothing approaching what a direct manual translation into Assembler could produce. Also got interested in the Assembly Language game, wrote my own disassembler and other utilities, and had a few publications in the computer mags, but nothing big. That was 10-20 years ago. I haven't done any programming since then and know nothing about what works on these new "IBM-compatible" machines. That's partly because they come without any user programming language installed like all of the early PC machines did with Basic. Of course I've heard about C, Fortran, Visual Basic, and such things but know very little about them. If I decide to get back into the programming game, I could use some advice about what language(s) to learn or where to begin. I would want a versatile higher-level language for designing and testing my algorithms, but one which can eventually be translated/compiled into the lowest-level, fastest code (if that's a reasonable expection?). Goals: I would probably be inclined towards writing a chess database system (like I did for the C64), and maybe chess playing software with a GUI and engine too (never got around to the engine part with the C64). Other criteria: it's gotta be cheap, preferably free language software. Also I don't care what op system is used, but am only familiar with windows at this point. Don't know if I will do it, but am thinking about it. I've been getting a little bored just playing chess, and maybe need more of a challenge. Any ideas/advice/suggestions/steering appreciated... WP
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