Author: Yen Art Tham
Date: 05:17:50 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 07:33:17, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 05, 2003 at 07:18:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>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. > >Nonsense. >If you could implement it quickly all engines would be stronger than Crafty. Nonsense. Bob could probably implement it quicker than anybody else, as he has the most experience. So Crafty would be much stronger than the rest. ;) > >-S. >>Dave
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