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Subject: Re: Bruce Moreland's Gerbil

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:11:12 06/11/01

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On June 11, 2001 at 17:54:40, Bruce Moreland wrote:
[snip]
>I have learned something in the past few days.
>
>If you talk about giving away something for free, you get huge numbers of
>helpful suggestions from everyone.
>
>I regard this as generally positive, but I'm also worried that my project won't
>please everyone.

No question.  You will get complaints, praises, and suggestions for every facet
of the project.  You will also get 1000 emails asking how to make it work under
Winboard.  An explanatory note that you won't answer emails about that won't
help either.

>If I was trying to just "get the job done", I would be willing to use
>everything, but I'm going to try to show source code, and the idea is to write
>that.
>
>The thing doesn't need to have a giant death book.  I can make a list of "e2e4"
>lines and simply eat them and generate a hash table at boot.  No problem.

SCP has a simple book interface.
Faile has a simple book interface.

Why not model after one of those?



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