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Subject: Re: It Takes Much Effort!!

Author: Eric Fitch

Date: 21:01:04 04/02/00

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On April 02, 2000 at 20:08:53, KarinsDad wrote:

>If you do not like it here, you do not have to stick around.
>
>KarinsDad

Never a good answer to a complaint about moderation. Very Archie Bunkerish.

>
>PS. I can easily say something "bad" about Crafty without getting moderated.
>
>It is difficult to read Crafty's code since it consists of 1.6M with most of the
>comments being at procedure or section levels with few comments explaining why
>something is done the way it is (e.g. variable = 1;, why?). Also, a lot of the
>procedures in Crafty are more than a page long and the code is compressed
>vertically (i.e. no vertical white space, making the code more difficult to
>read).
>
>See, easy to do. And, people can disagree with this assessment since the reasons
>for the opinion are given. But, saying that Crafty plays lousy chess when it
>obviously does not is just plain lousy. Can you beat Crafty on a regular basis?

So, "lousy" comments are to be deleted? That's pathetic.



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