Author: Hristo
Date: 23:16:40 06/15/98
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On June 15, 1998 at 14:14:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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programmer list posted a few weeks ago but it has been archived.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 Very well put Fernando !!! Very well indeed !!! I hope that you'll receive an apology! We, all, make mistakes. Do we acknowledge them ?! :))) Best regards. Hristo
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