Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:08:42 06/14/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 14:28:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 Stobor wasn't around before crafty was available. But even more important, do you remember _lots_ of discussions on ICC where you were asking Bruce and myself questions? _and_ getting answers? I do.
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