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Subject: Re: 1998 WCCC and/or WMCCC sponsorship

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:59:08 07/17/98

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On July 16, 1998 at 22:17:47, Don Dailey wrote:


>That's a good question.  But I don't think the answer is what you
>think it should be.  I think the sponsers and the ICCA is interested
>in awarding the title to the strongest machine/software combination
>the entrants can muster.  It is NOT a programming contest as you
>believe it should be.

I agree with this.

A WCCC is a full-blast anything goes thing.  That's what it is supposed to be.
It is not supposed to be a pure software contest.  If these open hardware events
had all been uniform events, for the past twenty years, imagine what would have
been stifled.

There would be no Deep Thought/Blue, because what is the point, it would have
had nowhere to compete.

There would have been no research in parallel programming, because what would
the point of that be?

bruce



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