Author: blass uri
Date: 23:34:47 04/20/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 01:36:29, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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. These are not the only options. It is possible that the operator is not someone who wrote part of the program but someone who knows something about the program(including understanding part of the source code) and is responsible for some ideas that helped the programmer. They could ask something that is not exactly author's participation Uri
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