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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 04:18:00 01/05/03

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On January 05, 2003 at 06:56:24, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 05, 2003 at 06:50:22, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>Nonsense.  It's important to know what has been done before, so that you don't
>>spend you time unproductively reinventing the wheel.
>>
>>Dave
>
>Nonsense.
>Programming an engine from scratch _is_ reinventing the wheel.
>
>Q: Why not buy a commercial and save time?
>A: Because you want to try you _own_ ideas, right?
>
>-S.

Nonsense.  It's exactly when you _don't_ know what's been done before that
programming an engine from scratch is reinventing the wheel.  If you _do_ know
what's been done before, you can implement it quickly, and move on to
investigate new ideas.

Dave

• Re: What about evaluation, Ed? Uri Blass 04:34:53 01/05/03
• Re: What about evaluation, Ed? Sune Fischer 04:33:17 01/05/03
  • Re: What about evaluation, Ed? Dave Gomboc 02:35:04 01/07/03
  • Re: What about evaluation, Ed? Yen Art Tham 05:17:50 01/05/03
    • Re: What about evaluation, Ed? Sune Fischer 05:21:37 01/05/03

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