Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:39:59 04/16/98
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On April 16, 1998 at 22:23:20, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi Tim:
>Yes, one point sometime makes the difference for choosing a program. I
>have seen the same all around my few friends that share my madness. Of
>course this is a metaphore, like yours; one point means perhps 20 or 30,
>that is, the same as one, in fact. If we were a little bit more smart
>than we are -but then we would not lose time in this- we would consider
>to own just a computer with enough features and strong to kill us most
>of the time, but in fact we are never satisfied: we want to be crushed
>by better and better programs. A syquiatrist friend of mine -no my
>shrink-that some day took a look here and read some of the articles
>wondered how was possible that people aparrently intelligent could waste
>so much time in so unuseful discussions. I stopped him short making some
>alutions to HIS habitude to go fishing and get regularly a cold instead
>of going to the supermarket to purchase the stuff. But he was right. I
>did not dare to tell them about my 40 or 50 programs and less to show
>him my collection of stand-alones units. Maybe this is the reason I
>expend daily at least a couple of hours or more reading and writting
>here -I work in my home, thansk God- : I feel in company with the same
>kind of nuts.
>Fernando
Yes we are crazy. My excuse is that I'm really writting a chess program.
I'm a little bit worried for those who don't, and still spend a lot of
time here. :)
Christophe
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