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It would be cool to see which programming languages could have the best short chess programs.
I'd nominate Haskell, scheme and prolog to try it in.
To make things fair, I think you'd have to define the valid set of languages as general purpose languages. I could see coming up with a chess-specific language that would be super-efficient in that the language would already have known chess properties as built-in elements.
Yaz
Sigh, forcing people to "learn to code" is just going to create legions of substandard programmers.
Alternately (and somewhat more likely), it will create a legion of future business people with software needs who know how to articulate those needs in a logical way when trying to write a specification.
Yaz
To the average Windows user, their computer is a means to an end.
As an outside observer, that end appears to be to run as much anti-virus/anti-malware as possible.
Yaz
If only it had been able to run for at least one more season. The ending was better than for a lot of other cancelled series, but from what I've read as to where the writers would have taken the series, one more season would have been welcomed.
Yaz
"The pyramid is opening!" "Which one?" "The one with the ever-widening hole in it!" -- The Firesign Theatre
