Author: Roman Hartmann
Date: 11:05:13 07/29/05
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On July 29, 2005 at 13:42:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 29, 2005 at 12:31:35, Roman Hartmann wrote: > >>On July 29, 2005 at 12:26:23, Eberhard wrote: >> >>>Do you know in what programming language Shredder 9 and Fruit 2.1 were written? >> >>Fruit is written in C++ while Shredder is AFAIK written in C. > >Fruit is written in C++, but it is very much a C program (not a single class in >it). > >Fabien is just using C++ as "a better C" as Stroustrup likes to say. > >And if he chooses to use classes at some point, he is guaranteed to have a good >start at it, because a C++ program will not contain C++ keywords like new, >delete, class, etc. > >Interestingly, he does not even use new and delete operators. > >Shredder is compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ and has (at least some) C++ in it >because it uses the Nalimov Tablebase files. I remember I read an interview with SMK where he stated that Shredder is written in C. Unless he wrote his own code in C to acces the EGTB's he def. is using some C++ as well. Roman
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