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Subject: Re: Chess programming and lisp

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 10:28:33 01/21/06

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On January 21, 2006 at 12:45:04, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 21, 2006 at 11:49:03, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2006 at 02:02:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Who wants a chess engine consisting almost entirely of parenthesis?
>>
>>Surely you can do better than "the syntax sucks."
>
>I am pretty sure Dann was joking.  A similar joke about
>C would be to say that nobody would want a chess engine
>consisting almost entirely of semicolons, asterisks and
>curly braces.

Eh eh... as you know, the parenthesis joke is practically automatic when it
comes to Lisp! :-)
When I first saw a C program, I had only experience with a few Assembly
dialects, Basic and Pascal... I remember staring in horror at the unintelligible
syntax with more punctuaction symbols than letters! 8-O
But with time, you get used to everything. Today, I need to look at Perl to feel
the same... ;-)



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