Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 04:56:43 01/18/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 05:08:54, Prakash Das wrote: >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. > Hi Prakash: I did not know that "once and again" I was confusing literature with computers. Maybe -maybe, only maybe- you are confusing, as many people does, to try to write entertainingly with writting without ideas. No exclusions are neccesary. 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. Now iit is you yhar is falling in some kind of literary flowery: to "sift trought" is not the real thing but just an image. In fact just to look at the titles of the post is enough, or even less. I do not believe you expend more than half a minute in detecting the purely programming stuff posts. > > 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. Finally pertinency is something to discuss. There are fuzzy limits between things, Prakash. But I see you love liomitis and sou you are advicing me to go to specific admusement sites :-) Well, not. Let me get my share of it here. Greetings from disneyland Fernando > > Prakash Das
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