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Subject: Re: Context Comment Re: Source codes

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:22:09 06/12/00

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On June 11, 2000 at 10:14:38, aloysius wrote:

>I guess I did not make myself clear? The "simple" I used was supposed to be in
>terms of understanding it {heavily commented :)} not the code being simple, in
>other words brief, and a lot of functions missing.
>-Aloysius

This is what I assumed you meant.  I have _always_ tried to write Crafty so
that it is understandable.  The problem is that it is also _big_.  And a lot
of easy to understand things, when combined into a big program, become very
hard to remember/follow/understand...

The sheer size of 50,000 lines of code is daunting until you _really_ study it
enough (I have of course) to know what is done where and why.  Then it isn't so
complex any more... but reading someone else's code is _always_ harder than
reading your own.



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