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Subject: Re: assembler vs. C

Author: leonid

Date: 03:05:35 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 02:33:10, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On November 07, 1999 at 22:58:55, leonid wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 1999 at 20:33:59, Geoff Bull wrote:
>>
>>>On November 05, 1999 at 17:14:01, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 03, 1999 at 21:08:47, Geoff Bull wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 02, 1999 at 13:04:38, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>>>If you are trying to develop a chess program, use C.
>>>>>
>>>>>C is not the only language in the world.
>>>>
>>>>The title of the thread is "assembler vs C", so please forgive me for
>>>>restricting the domain to these two languages, since this is what the original
>>>>poster was asking about.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Maybe so.
>>>But I thought your advice was overly narrow, and maybe that it had not
>>>occurred to the originally poster that they had other alternatives to
>>>consider.
>>>If your advice had been:
>>>"If you are trying to develop a chess program, don't use assembler"
>>>few would disagree.
>>>
>>>GB
>>
>>If you write your chess program only for fun, use every language that you could
>>like. But if you expect that "others" should observe your happiness, use
>>Assembler. Only this language will give your game extra ply over others. It will
>>naturally induce into your game some extra glamoring brillances able to capture
>>the attention of human eyes. And since the human is a social animal that crave
>>for attention, Assembler is the only natural language for him to express
>>himself.
>>
>>Leonid.
>
>In order for your program to win, first your program has to play.  Writing it
>from scratch in assembler is the least productive way to do this, unless your
>last name happens to be Morsch.
>
>Dave

Never mind your name if your set of mind is right.

Leonid.



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