Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 13:47:32 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 16:13:43, Roy Eassa wrote: >On June 03, 2002 at 14:45:41, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>On June 03, 2002 at 14:29:25, Dante Rosati wrote: >> >>>some claim that the lunsen opening book is superior to powerbook. Is there any >>>basis for this? Has anyone run games with the two opening books against each >>>other? >>> >>>Dante >> >>Doing a complete and comprehensive comparison would surely have to be a fully >>automated test. It might take forever to run games the usual way, and not clear >>how to assure complete coverage by running games. >> >>Perhaps there is no program currently available to do this "complete and >>comprehensive comparison." >> >>I am not a programmer. Wish I were, but I'm too old to learn any new tricks. >>This sounds like it might be a fun project. >> >>Bob D. > > >Your profile says you wrote a chess program in 1958. Does that mean you *were* >once a programmer? (PS: I was born at the end of that year.) To get me to answer that question, you must first look under a few large rocks! :) Seriously, I do not consider myself to be a programmer. It is true that I was part of a group of students in 1958 who did some machine language programming, but I never followed-up on that. As an engineering student and later as an engineer, I had to do a lot of Fortran programming [and other languages], but the modern programmers probably don't consider Fortran to be a "real" language. In any case, when I wrote Fortran programs, I was "doing engineering." :) Keep in mind that Computer Science did not exist in 1958. It would be interesting to know when the first Computer Science Department came into existence in a University somewhere. I fear that the days of Computer Science "are numbered." Soon,Software development will be a "software engineering" department in an engineering school. Whatever is left will probably be absorbed by a Linguistics Department in a College of Arts and Sciences. Also, when did the first "Chess Software Design/Development/Test Professional" [I hesitate to use the word "programmer"] first make his/her appearance on our spherical planet? Bob D.
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