Author: Michael Yee
Date: 17:00:31 08/21/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 19:46:45, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 21, 2005 at 19:38:08, Brian Richardson wrote: > >>On August 21, 2005 at 02:48:31, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>The silence in CCC is deafening... >>> >>>This is an historic WCCC, the first time a non commercial winning the WCCC since >>>1992, it seems their domination period is over. Not to speak about the micro >>>WCCC which has been dominated from the very beginning by the commercials. >>> >>>Congratulations Anthony, you did the impossible and so convincing. >>> >>>Ed >> >>Let me add my congratulations. It has only been a couple of years since Tinker >>was sometimes minimally competitive with Zappa. The tremendous improvements you >>have made in that short time are clear with Zappa's absolutely stunning WCCC05 >>performance. >> >>I would also like to acknowledge Fruit's very strong performance too. >> >>Brian > >I think that Fabien's achievement is clearly better than Anthony's >achievement. > >Fruit is younger than zappa and also free source code so Anthony could learn >from Fabien's code but not the opposite. > >Uri Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say "clearly better". Even though it's possible Anthony looked at other source code, it's not clear that he necessarily did. In fact, I think there are some programmers that enjoy the challenge of seeing how far they can go with their own implementation before looking at what others have done. Michael
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