Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:02:11 03/16/04
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On March 16, 2004 at 08:31:14, Joachim Rang wrote: >On March 16, 2004 at 08:17:25, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On March 16, 2004 at 08:03:04, Joachim Rang wrote: >> >>>On March 16, 2004 at 05:34:58, Mimic wrote: >>> >>>>If List is a big clone of Cryft , Why List have a better score in FRC ?? >>> >>>everyone agrees (even Uri) that it is unlikely (though not impossible) that List >>>is a crafty-clone. >>> >>>regards Joachim >> >>I do not think that there is an agreement about it. >>I hope that people can usually say about programs without free source code that >>it is unlikely that they are crafty-clone and be right(but maybe I am too >>optimistic) but the case of List is different. >> >>After it was taken out of a tournament because of some evidence that it was >>crafty clone the programmer needs to prove that it is not a crafty >>clone(otherwise I cannot say that it is unlikely that list is a crafty clone). >> >>Uri > > >sorry I thought that there were an agrrement. I thought the doubts were about >whether it was justified to exclude List from the WC or not and not about the >fact whether it is a clone or not. I was mistaken. > >regards Joachim Excluding List from the WC was because of the suspect that it is has parts of Crafty(if it is justified to call a program clone based on it is another question). I do not think that it was justified to exclude it in the middle of the tournament and I think that even if it turned out that some program is a clone in the middle of the tournament then it is too late to get it out but it is a different subject. Uri
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