Transitive property abused for emphasis.

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7:06:15 PM UTC-8, hsmyers wrote:
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> err…wouldn't that be "C an Bell product…" Bell Labs and all.
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> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 7:12 PM, as <as....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> Calling Go a Google product makes as much sense as calling C a Nokia 
>> product. 
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>> 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.
>>>
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