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Subject: Re: To Steven Schwartz

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:18:17 01/18/99

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On January 18, 1999 at 07:56:43, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>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.

I certainly hope you don't. Literature is too great to confuse it with zeroes
and ones.

>Maybe -maybe, only maybe- you are confusing, as many people does, to try to
>write entertainingly with writting without ideas. No exclusions are neccesary.

True. We, the literary people, can be condescending enough when required.

>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.

Also true, and I skip them all carefully, or otherwise they would put me to
sleep on the spot. I never skip your posts, though.

>> 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

No, no. Talking non-technicalities about computer chess doesn't send you to that
horrible place. Keep coming with your posts, please: I love them.

Enrique

>Fernando
>
>>
>> Prakash Das



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