Author: Lar Mader
Date: 11:26:59 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 14:19:21, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote: >Hi, > >I'm completely new to programming and I want to learn a language to program a >chess engine, it will be a long work. I'm planning to learn C++ first, its >basics but my brother keeps telling me that C++ is old and is not used anymore, >that Visual Basic.NET is easier and shorter to program. What do you guys think? I like the .NET languages a lot for most application development, and would agree that for most apps they are the way to go (but I would recommend C# instead of VB.NET). However, for chess programming, where high performance code confers an advantage in searching deeply, .NET code suffers from the fact that it is slower than natively compiled C++. If you are interested in writing highly optimised, fast code, for your chess engine, C++ is still probably the way to go. -= Lar
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