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Subject: Re: Commercial program strength vs. amateur program strength

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:12:06 12/20/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 18:30:51, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On December 20, 2001 at 17:56:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>I can't think of a reason why commercial programmers would have an edge over
>>amateurs when coming up with good ideas/techniques.
>
>When an amateur programmer comes up with lots of good ideas/techniques, then
>he'll have success and go commercial eventually. I think that's how Shredder and
>Junior proceeded.

Right, but Shredder and Junior's authors had their good ideas when they were
amateurs and implemented them in their amateur programs, which confirms my point
that amateur programmers can have/implement good ideas just as well as the
commercial programmers.

-Tom



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