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Subject: Re: To Steven Schwartz

Author: Prakash Das

Date: 02:08:54 01/18/99

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On January 17, 1999 at 17:45:17, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Dear friend>:
>Your way to see things surely is shared by a lot of people here, specially
>programming people or technically biased people, but if we would follow your
>advice a sad fragmentation of interest and relationships would be the result.
>You see, in a community, no matter if real or virtual, a degree of confusion,
>mixing and weird iteration must exist in order to feed the site with the
>unexpected, the serendipity factor, the personal factor, the humour factor, the
>life factor. I am not prtogrammer but I like to read that stuff from time to
>time and at the same time to share even non chessic thoughts or jokes with
>people here. Both things feed each other. THIS IS NOT an specialized magazine,
>this is a site made out for and by human beings that want to share all aspects
>of chess computers field.
>Besides, you already know who are the programmers and who are not. Nobody
>compels you to read those writen by people like me or any other more interested
>in a pleasant chat about a commercial program than to discuss about the
>bitboards. Let all kind of flower grow toguether. No problem. Life is confusion
>and disorder. I like to see a degree of it in the pages of CCC. I do not want to
>be part of a scientific utopy. I do not want too much order and rules. I do not
>want to be compelled to go to a second class department  in order to chat with
>enrique about the weather AND his relation with Fritz.
>With happy confusion
>Fernando

 Hello Fernando,

Once again you confuse the issue with a lot of literary flowery and little else.
I am not a chess programmer but am a scientist type (engineer and all)... If
some (serious-minded) people come here to look for programming related threads
one can assume they don't want to sift through hundreds of "off-topic" posts.
Time is a valuable commodity.

 There are enough non-programming threads to keep you (and me) amused. As Don
Dailey says, in that case you maybe have rgcc=which is the equivalent of the
waterhole in the Serengeti imo.
 There are no "second-class" departments as you think.. only topics pertinent to
chess programming and not pertinent to chess programming. It's binary.

 Prakash Das



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