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Subject: Re: To Steven Schwartz

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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