Author: Harald Faber
Date: 05:21:40 05/15/03
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On May 15, 2003 at 04:03:12, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On May 14, 2003 at 14:56:56, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 14, 2003 at 09:31:52, José Carlos wrote: >>>On May 14, 2003 at 08:52:00, Harald Faber wrote: >>[snip] >>>>You won't need many fingers to count the people who would prefer DOS over >>>>Windows. Guess why. >>> >>> Didn't say that. Didn't say _prefer_. I said I disagree about DOS sucking and >>>being dead. Particularly, Rebel interface has everything I _need_ to enjoy a >>>chess program. >> >>DOS is fine for programmers. In fact, I do all kinds of stuff from the command >>line even in Windows that makes people recoil in horror. >> >>End-users want to point and click. They won't be able to edit an ini file >>correctly and they won't be able to set environmental variables or things like >>that. Which is all fine and good. A chaque le sien goûte. > >Writing a command line program you can focus on the open heart surgery, while >writing a Windows program you also have to spend a lot of time worrying about >the plastic surgery and cosmetics... > >From the average user's point of view, graphical interfaces are much easier to >use, but the overhead of writing a graphical interface is sometimes too high for >the programmer. In times of Winboard and especially UCI there is almost no need to write an own GUI. You just have to implement an UCI protocol/interface to your engine. I can assure you that MANY people would appreciate it if Ed releases an UCI Rebel. No matter if for money or for free.
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