Author: Paul Clarke
Date: 06:23:09 03/07/06
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On March 06, 2006 at 22:16:42, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >I'd forget about BASIC and its relatives. > >Go with C. > >I would not recommend JAVA, C++, or any of the OOPS languages. > >You need something with speed and that doesn't obfuscate and >confuse, for computer chess. A C++ program isn't necessarily going to be significantly slower than a C program, particularly as most legal C programs are also legal C++ programs. C++ gives you a few extra ways to slow yourself down, but unless you start - e.g. - calling virtual functions or throwing exceptions in a tight loop, you're unlikely to notice anything. There may also, depending on the compiler, be a small overhead to support handling exceptions, but again I doubt it would make a significant speed difference. Judging by the code snippet posted recently, Fruit is written in C++, and it isn't noted for being slow.
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