err…wouldn't that be "C an Bell product…" Bell Labs and all. On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, as <as.u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
