Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:01:06 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 20:55:22, Albert Silver wrote: [snip] >You might consider asking another long-time chess programmer like Ed Schroder or >even Bob Hyatt. Not that I think they spend time punching cards on maintenance >time as opposed to development time, but still... I think the hard part will be coming up with accurate figures from any of them. When you are programming as a hobby, you don't write down all the time you spend reading books, tinkering with alrgorithms, debugging, etc. And only a few chess programmers have bothered to go professional. So someone who keeps fastidious records will probably be hard to come by. On the other hand, I would be very interested to know if my estimates fall into line with what professional chess programmers have experienced. If they have not, I would be especially keen to find out why. I also suspect that computer chess programmers are among the worst paid software engineers in the world considering their skill level. But I might be wrong about that. I don't know much about their pay scale. But considering how few units are sold (except for ChessMaster) it seems it would be very hard to make it become actually worth while. I consider every chess software I buy an incredible bargain. And the free stuff -- amazing. But there are other amazing projects where all the labor is dontated too (e.g. PostgreSQL database).
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