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Subject: Re: What's the best programming language for chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:05:38 02/24/05

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Use the language you know best to learn.

Use a compiled language to win.

The most popular are:
1. C
2. C++
3. Pascal variants
4. Everything else

Do NOT use:
1. Assembly (I guarantee that eventually you will be sorry).  Too tedious.
2. Awk/Perl/Php/Python/Rexx or any other interpreted language.  Too slow.

Interesting alternatives:
1. Ada (Robust)
2. C#/Java (Easy to use, nice abstraction)
3. Eiffel/Haskell/Icon/Sather/Smalltalk/Lisp (Just to see how well it turns out)
4. ML (Chess in a functional language might be cool)

If you do use these, I think eventually you would rewrite in C or C++.

• Re: What's the best programming language for chess? William Penn 07:30:58 02/25/05
  • Re: What's the best programming language for chess? Dan Honeycutt 08:41:02 02/25/05
    • Re: What's the best programming language for chess? William Penn 17:23:21 02/25/05
    • Re: What's the best programming language for chess? Dann Corbit 11:03:15 02/25/05
      • Re: What's the best programming language for chess? Dan Honeycutt 11:36:33 02/25/05
        • Good ole Hollerwith cards <s> NT Les Fernandez 13:12:09 02/25/05

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