Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 02:40:22 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 03:35:32, Uri Blass wrote: >I think that the fact that most programs have only one author is a disadvantage. > >I believe that programmers could progress significantly faster if the program >was designed by 2 persons when one person decide about the data structure of the >program and the algorithm and the second person implement it without bugs. > >The problem of a lot of chess programs is bugs and part of the bugs are bugs >that the authors even do not know about them. > >I think that a person that his talent is not finding good ideas but implementing >ideas without bugs may be productive for a lot of programmers. > >I wonder if there is a team of 2 programmers in chess when the job of one >of them is not to suggest data structure and algorithms but only to write the >program with no bugs based on a given data structure and algorithms that are >given by the second person in the team. > >Uri I don't know how well the designer/implementer situation would work outside of a full-time software development company. I think it would be hard, but not impossible, to make it work. The two people would have to be in a unique situation - live close to one another, be at least somewhat good friends, have similar ideas about what makes a chess program good, etc.
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