[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Jim O'Flaherty, Jr.]

Techies,

Best tool for the job versus passion for a particular tool:
http://tinyurl.com/k7egk
  or
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/08/when_the_best_t.html

I do like her analysis.  And I still think Java is better than C++.  :^P  :^)


Jim


----- Original Message ----
From: Benjamin Teuber <benjamin.teuber at web.de>
To: computer-go <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 10:02:10 AM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

Hi!

First of all, I think it'd be a good idea to build a common 
infrastructure - even common stuff like a gtp-parser aren't bad to have, 
although something more sophisticated is even better. I saw one simple 
framework with GUI etc. in C++, but I forgot its name.
So as programming language, I guess you already decided on Java? Another 
(mainsstream, I don't want to bother you more with Lisp ;) ) choice 
could be .net/mono, so that the main stuff can be done in C#, which is 
quite "Java++", while freaks with faible for uncommon languages could 
still chose among all .net-languages... just an idea, though..

> But central to it all, and the most differential, is the evaluation 
> module.
I guess in Go, evaluation is done by search, while search is guided by 
(simpler) evaluation. So I think it's just a question of your point of 
view how you call it.
Note that with "search", I don't mean simple alpha-beta, but rather 
something that works with complex trees like we have in Go. The 
promising monte-carlo aproaches are a good example how evaluation and 
search are interweaved all of the time.

So I would use other words, but still I completely agree on your plan.

Regards,
Benjamin
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