Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 09:50:22 01/20/05
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On January 20, 2005 at 10:42:40, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 20, 2005 at 10:28:05, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >>On January 20, 2005 at 08:30:44, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>is this an insider joke ? >> >> >> >>The Crafty clone is no more an issue in the scene. >>Why should someone want to beta test it ? ;) >> >>/Matthias. > >chinito is no crafty clone. >he used parts of crafty. this is what many (amateur-)programmers do >from time to time to TRY OUT things, or to be lazy concerning certain >areas ... but after a time of experience those programmers mostly throw the >parts from crafty overboard because they found them inefficient. > >IMO a crafty clone is something different. when somebody takes the whole >program, changes a few things and comes with HIS name instead of crafty. > >with chinito or Eugen it is different. >eugen was a strong program long before crafty code was implemented. > >As long as chinito plays different then crafty of course people would like to >betatest it. > >IMO you are shallow when you make your jokes. >but you can continue like this, of course. > >for me chinito (or eugen) are interesting programs and of course i do like to >test them and this because the programmer, eugenio castillo gives the programs >something unique that has nothing to do with crafty source code. if crafty would >have "this", i would test crafty too. but this is not the case. If someone uses considerable amounts of foreign code without declaring it (till one is caught), that is cloning. The only credit I give Eugen Castillo is that he did not relase ElChinito personally, nor did he really intend to release. /Matthias.
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