Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:35:30 06/03/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 18:49:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On June 02, 2000 at 11:10:29, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On June 02, 2000 at 09:34:22, Daniel Clausen wrote: >> >>>Hi >>> >>>Note: This is very off-topic on CCC so if you're looking for something chess- >>> related, press your back-button. :) >> >> >>I've always disagreed with this viewpoint. If I have a bug in my computer chess >>program, then resolving that bug is computer chess related. Regardless of >>whether it is a compiler problem, an algorithm problem, or any other type of >>programming problem. Otherwise, this place would be called the Chess Club (for >>playing computer chess, not for programming it), IMO. > >I read KD's original post and thought it was fine, mainly because I assumed KD >was working on his chess program and ran into a problem. Okay, I really >wouldn't like to see 100 messages about C++ specifics, but I don't have a >problem with someone who is writing chess (or similar, e.g. othello) software >asking for some help. > >Nonetheless, it's probably true that KD could get better feedback in >comp.lang.c++.moderated. There have already been a few things said that, to the >best of my knowledge, are clearly incorrect. But I think that all I'll say at >this point is that the ISO C++ standard specifies proper behaviour, that some >compilers in common use today are very far from compliance, and that people >using those compilers shouldn't make claims about the capabilities and/or >limitations of C++ based upon what their compiler does or doesn't do. > >Dave I agree that there should not be a whole bunch of messages on this topic. However, I contend two things: 1) There were 4 posts on the topic, and now this is the 2nd post on the moderation of whether it is topical or not. A total of 6 posts when all I wanted was to see if anyone could solve the problem for my chess program. We have people go off with jokes for a half dozen posts virtually every week here where their jokes have NOTHING to do with a chess program. 2) If someone was running Fritz and could not get it to run and the eventual reason discovered was that they had a hardware problem which was hard to detect, I am CERTAIN that a 50 post thread with suggestions on how to diagnose their system in order to get Fritz up and running again would be allowed. ESPECIALLY if all of their other software worked, but Fritz didn't (since it is more CPU intensive). Just my opinion of course. From my point of view, anything related to computer chess should be allowed and specifically from my point of view, getting past a bug in my chess program is VERY computer chess related. IMHO. KarinsDad :) PS. Before posting it, I scoured MSDN for an answer. If I got no results here, I was then going to go elsewhere on the net. I just thought there was a slim chance that one of the programming gurus here would have run into something similar or that someone could point me to a good C++ site (I should have asked that in my first post, but the ol' brain pan wasn't working too well). PSS. Dave, thanks for the info on comp.lang.c++.moderated. Information like that is another reason for coming here second.
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