From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness)
Date: 1999/09/06
Date: 1999-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7r1c4c$9an$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rt872lon8os47@corp.supernews.com
In article <rt872lon8os47@corp.supernews.com>,
"Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Eight Queens Problem and was discussed and illustrated
> in "Programming in Modula-2" written by Niklaus Wirth.
> There were several editions of this book. Third edition was
> published by Springer-Verlag in 1985.
> This book may be useful not only for those using Modula-2
but
> also for those learning Ada.
I am sure that Vladimir knows this, but just to avoid any
confusion, this problem is much older than 1985. The reference
to the NW book is simply one of many discussions of this well
known problem (well known because it is the canonical
example, one might say
8 queens is to backtracking as
factorial is to recursion
:-)
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-31 0:00 Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness tmoran
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness) Daryle Walker
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-09-07 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
[not found] ` <37D55622.69B27515@rational.com>
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Homework " Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Homework Mark Lundquist
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Jerry Petrey
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Nick Roberts
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Kindness James William Zuercher
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
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