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Subject: Re: Has this name been used before?

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 06:25:08 12/14/97

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On December 13, 1997 at 15:36:05, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>On December 13, 1997 at 10:05:36, Jari Huikari wrote:
>
>>What about the name 'Alex'? (Nero's "son") Anyone used it before?
>
>This name has been used by a french programmer, Yann Takvorian, who
>wrote a book named "Echecs et C" (Chess and C). It describes basic chess
>implementation in a very academic and inefficient way (he uses malloc to
>create move lists!). A compagnion floppy disk can be bought apart of the
>book. It contains the author's chess program, Alex II, a very slow and
>weak program.
>
>    Christophe

Aha! The name has traditions... :-)

					Jari



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