Claus Reinke wrote: >As for me, i'm really NOT interested in knowing "what langage is good for go >programming". That's simply not a question i can ask myself, nor anyone else. > This question doesn't make any sense for me. Still if someone can get the >"standard light playout" right in less than 10 code line, and they are very >understandable lines. I would be very happy to see it. But it would never >mean for me that, "this language is BEST". Even if the peformances are >optimal there. I think 90% of the "this language is the best" debate gets it's >root in some affective part of the people engaged with it.
If, instead of asking what is the best language for writing a strong Go playing program, we ask what is the best language for clealry expressing the rules of Go (recognizing and scoring legal games), then I think Haskell (http://www.haskell.org/) deserves some consideration. See my attempt at http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/go/Go.hs Such programs go a long way toward removing all ambiguity from informal (e.g. English language) rule statements. regards, -John _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
