Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:14:23 06/15/98
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On June 15, 1998 at 07:51:00, Mark Taylor wrote: >I don't know if you are a programmer or not - I tried looking at the >programmer list posted a few weeks ago but it has been archived. If you >are programmer please tell us what strategy your program uses... > >Otherwise... I have a standard reply to those suggest alternative >methods of doing things - write a chess program that uses an alternative >method, and prove that the current search methods are inferior! Dear Mark: No, I am not a programmer, but does not mean a thing. Your argument is a great example of "ad hominen" falacie I learned in the school to avoid. Your "sandard reply" is a bad standard reply and you shuild change it. Following your logic nobody could comment how a bulding is made if he is not architect, nobody can say if some music like him or not, or if it is good or not if he is not musician, etc, etc. Besides I am not trying to trash actual methods. I just wonder in loud voice -this is the reason of CCC after all- if maybe some other method is possible and also I dare to forecast that there will be another some day, based in structural analysis instead of moves. Why you thinks that that is unthinkable? Why you attack me in such a manner, telling me indirectly -in fact, directly- that I should shut the mouse if I no comply with certain professsional parameters? Then do you think that nobody can have an opinion here except programmers? Well, no Mark, that is not the purpose of this club. Maybe I am wrong and you have all the right to tell so, as Don, Bob and other people do, but just to ask me in an indirect way to abandon this issue because I am not a programmer, because I cannot put a program as example of my words, that is not very civil, not logic, not pleasant, not convincing. I wonder what I have said about this, about you or else to amerit your harsh words You nknow Mark, in all field there arte people that even if not trained professionally, are enough intelligent or sensible or acquanted with the matter to have an opinion. Some times even thas lay oponion are fruitful. Sometimes a lay can see things that a man too much engaged with a determinate professional practice don't see or does not want to see. But evben if that is not the case, I pretend to popst more about this or other issues without presenting a program of my creation as support of my words. Lastly, If you think my words are not relevant because I am not a programmer, the solution is very easy: don't read my posts. Regards Fernando
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