Don Dailey wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:43 +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote: >> My personal preference might be C, but at >> work I have to learn more Java... Anyway, I don't want to start a >> language >> war here, not again... > > Oh, you want a war :-) > > Seriously, Java has it's place but if you really get serious about > developing the highest performance strong playing bot I think you pretty > much are forced into a low level language. I see only a very few > reasonable choices if you want to go that way: > > C or C++ > Assembly > D
If you look for performance you can hardly discount Fortran. Actually there's a fair chance that the majority of the world's Monte Carlo programs are written in that language. Anecdote: My very first experience of games programming was in Fortran. As an intern I was given the assignment to update one of the last, and not exactly business critical, pieces of a large power distribution surveillance product (think lots of power plants and nationwide distribution networks) in a migration from one operating system to another. This was the operator's console distraction, an othello program written in a pre-Fortran77 version of Fortran, littered with arithmetic if statements. I had absolutely no clue (neither had anyone else) how the program worked until I had line by line translated it into C and unravelled the code structure into sensible (logical) if statements and while loops. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
