Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:28:06 06/13/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 19:15:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 12, 2000 at 11:49:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >[snip] >>What do you mean by "influential"? Do you mean that people have copied code and >>algorithms from Crafty, i.e., cheated? I don't think this is such a great >>quality. > >There were some "sneak" crafty clones where the copiest claimed it was their >original program. I don't think that did anyone any good. But there have been >many more programs where someone has learned something by looking at crafty code >and implementing the idea in their own program. There is nothing evil or >underhanded in this. > >Is there not one single idea used in Stobor which has benefitted from some idea >developed in crafty? Definitely not. I do not need (and have not used) Bob's code to write a good program. Stobor was around before Crafty was publicly available anyway. And as far as I know, no idea has been developed in Crafty. It's just another program. -Tom
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