RE: [computer-go] Oh no...possible language superiority storm ahead...

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: computer-go-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:computer-go-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim O'Flaherty,
> Jr.
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 20:29
> To: computer-go
> Subject: [computer-go] Oh no...possible language superiority storm
> ahead...
>
>
> Vincent,
>
> Please refer to earlier messages talking about languages and
> speed.  Apparently your cached data
> about Java is quite stale.  Time to do a refresh.  ;^)
>
> No point in starting a language *war* thingy.  You use what you
> use.  He uses what he uses.
> Criticizing someone else's choice of language seems quite trite.
>
>
> Jim
>

I couldn't have replied better myself :)

It will probably be only a few years until even chess-programmers will use
Java, simply because Microsoft will force it down their throats. I'm of the
opinion of course that C# IS Java, just named differently for political
reasons. You might just as well start now, while you're still young and it's
easy to switch to a new language :)

For someone like Vincent, who believes Moore's law will continue some
decades longer, disregarding a language so lightly just because it's
performance is just a few 'Moore months' behind seems a little strange.

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