Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:27:43 12/11/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 14:54:19, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>On December 11, 2000 at 13:56:17, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>That's not true. Programs DO plan.
>
>No, they don't. Not by any definition of the word.
>
>Programs behave like a donkey following a carrot on a stick. Wherever the
>programmer points the stick the program follows. Changing the size of the carrot
>or the length of the stick doesn't matter.
Excuse me Mogens, but I believe I have some knowledge about what's going on in a
chess program (mine for example), and I can assure you that programs DO plan.
If programs don't plan, then humans are just in the same exact way following a
carrot on a stick.
Which can be debated, and can maybe even found out to be the case.
But I can assure you that if humans are planning, then programs (some of them)
do it as well.
Christophe
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