Re: what is the best language for go: Re: [computer-go] Scoreestimating

[Myriam Abramson <mabramso@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Another possibility is to use a languge provides high-level
> abstraction (at and beyond the level of Python and Ruby) with
> compilation to machine code and the *option* of providing declarations
> that the compiler can use to generate even more efficient code. The
> language: Common Lisp. Folks whose experience with Lisp occured either
> 10-20 years ago and/or in a single college computer science course
> (which probably taught Scheme) tend to have a highly distorted view of
> what Lisp is all about. If you're happy with your language choice,
> great. But folks looking for a better way might want to give Common
> Lisp a look.

Yes, Lisp is my language of choice. I made a living with Lisp for over
10+ years. Nowadays, I program in Java. For my Go program, I decided
to use Java. If you use any kind of learning method (i.e., neural
net), you need a very good Lisp and at the time, there wasn't any good
free lisp available. Maybe now cmulisp is up to the task. However, you
can't match Lisp's ease of debugging. I will go back to it at the
first occasion. Maybe then my program will work better :-)

I'll look forward to your book. 


                                   myriam
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