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Subject: Re: Is it time for the Winboard Protocol to go the way of the Dodo?

Author: Lance Perkins

Date: 15:30:12 03/09/05

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Basic program design tells you not to embed UI strings in your program. The UCI
is exactly the oposite - the protocol calls for the engine to send the UI
options through the protocol - UI strings in your engine.

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On March 09, 2005 at 15:55:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 09, 2005 at 13:56:32, Lance Perkins wrote:
>
>>The UCI protocol pretends to be stateless, when in fact it is. So, what is it
>>really?
>
>"More stateless" than xboard. And yes, that *is* a *huge* advantage.
>
>>Marrying the UI and the protocol? Now that's a hack. How would you localize
>>that? It means you have to localize every engine, when you should only be
>>localizing the UI.
>
>Since UCI solves this, I assume you are praising UCI?
>
>--
>GCP



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