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Subject: Re: (ugh ugh) how how

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 08:59:12 04/05/01

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On April 05, 2001 at 11:46:35, Christophe Theron wrote:

>Actually it is not totally new. A few years ago, there was CSTal, and I remember
>people were frequently posting games. At that time nobody complained about these
>single games posts.


Just for the record.....is the absence of complaints *then*  a compelling reason
not to complain now?



>Now we have a program which has both an interesting playing style AND a very
>good level of play.
>
>I think Feivel wanted to emphasize on that, because that it is still NEW and
>SURPRISING.


I agree.


>
>In this spirit, Vincent's reaction was totally off.
>


....but that NEW/SURPRISING argument wasn't used. Vincent was called "jealous".
And that's something different than disagreeing about the speciality of the
program.

Maybe he disagrees based on programming techniques used by you and by him.

I don't know - my programming knowledge is limited to finding the on/off button
on my pc. That's all.

Now I'm going to try to post this message. Ummmm.... mouse, yes, here it is,
what's that in the manual......left button..... yeah...., where is the left
button, .....ahhh....click...duhhh, once, yup.... okay, here it goes....one,
two....

J.



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