Calling Go a Google product makes as much sense as calling C a Nokia product.
On Friday, November 24, 2017 at 7:23:06 PM UTC-8, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > I invented a chess variation called: Elphaba Chess > This is just like International Chess except that the queen can't capture > the opponent's pieces and it can't be captured --- it is just used for > blocking. > > I would like to write a program to play this game, but writing that from > scratch is beyond me. > Perhaps I could find a public-domain open-source chess program and modify > it to use my rules. I would have to change the legal-move code to eliminate > captures by the queen or captures of the queen. > Other than that, the program should work fine. Check-mate is still the > goal. The queen is still worth 9 points, but that is irrelevant, so you > might as well say that it is worth 0 points. > I would not expect the point values for the other pieces to change --- > they might though --- this would have to be determined by experimentation > (by stronger players than myself). > > I would prefer to do this in Go as I'm learning Go and this would be a > good learning exercise. > If there are no such programs available in Go however, then I could use > another language --- I know C, C++ and Pascal, but not very well, and I > don't like them much. > My background is in Forth (I've done that professionally), but ANS-Forth > killed Forth in 1994, so nobody really uses Forth anymore. > > thanks for any links --- Hugh > > My ultimate goal with Go is to write a program to "understand" the Ido > language, at least insomuch as generating a grammar diagram for a sentence > and determining if the sentence is grammatical. > It could go from there to generating an English or Spanish translation. I > have a lot to learn about Go before I tackle such a program however. > > Does Go run on smart-phones? I have only heard of Java and Objective-C > being used. I have no interest in learning Java, and not much interest in > Objective-C. > > This program lends itself well to parallel processing. The meaning and > part-of-speech (POS) of each word in an Ido sentence is > context-insensitive, so the words can be analyzed in parallel. > I have designed a multi-core Forth processor that can be built into an > FPGA --- that is what I would like to use --- build a handheld device to do > the translation. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
