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Subject: Re: Where are all the Programmers?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:27:58 11/29/98

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On November 29, 1998 at 06:07:07, odell hall wrote:

>Hi CCC
>
>
>  I am just curious why is it that I never see any post by Richard Lang on these
>boards, or for that matter Mark Uniacke? I have been wondering about this for
>quite some time. Is it possible they were kicked out? I am sure I am leaving out
>many others. I would assume that all programmers would flock to such a computer
>chess forum!


The problem is this:

Commercial programmers don't want to reveal what they consider "secrets"
because they want to maintain a competitive advantage over their primary
competition for sales, which is the *other* commercial programs.  As a
result, you won't see much technical discussion from them.  A couple do
post here, primarily to answer questions about their programs from a customer
support perspective, or to discuss games they have played, but again *not*
to supply technical details on the internals.

As a result, there's really little incentive for one to come here, because
they get dragged into technical support questions and won't get much info from
their competitors anyway.



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