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Subject: Re: Is the Crafty-Sjeng match complete?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:17:24 11/11/02

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On November 11, 2002 at 10:32:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 11, 2002 at 05:03:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2002 at 21:14:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>However, I don't remember any code that "didn't work".  I don't generally
>>>write code that "doesn't work".  I certainly might have a bug here and there,
>>>or a special case that causes problems.  But "didn't work"???
>>
>>Different definition.
>>
>>An evaluation with bugs is an evaluation that doesn't work IMHO,
>>because sometimes it's worse than not evaluating the thing in
>>question at all.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>I won't disagree. But I will say that none of my pawn code has fit that
>category.  It has been tested far too many different ways.  Including the
>test by fire of playing lots of games...
>
>I can always dig up the email you sent to see what kind of bug(s) you found,
>but I can't imagine them being "serious"...

Not to the extend that it would have been worse than not having it, no.

--
GCP



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