Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:36:29 04/20/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 00:41:32, Mark Ryan wrote: >Disadvantage: Some programs (like Crafty) cannot attend. >Advantage: ? > >Mark They don't, they just say they do. At the last WCCC, they said the author had to be there, then they allowed some programs to compete without the author being present. In a couple of other cases they invited a program to play sans author in order to round out the field, which is different, of course. The reason the author is supposed to be there is that if participants are allowed to mail in their programs, things are less interesting for the participants who bother to show up. It's more fun to play across the table from the author of the program than it is to play across the table from someone who didn't write the program, doesn't know anything about it, and may not be able to understand the user interface. Some number of the teams got around the author rule by declaring beta testers to be "authors" of some part of the program, which is bullshit, of course. bruce
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