Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:11:09 05/04/05
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On May 04, 2005 at 06:14:35, Peter Berger wrote: >On May 03, 2005 at 22:07:25, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>Except it doesn't really make it tough. A program author can merely mean a >>contributor to the opening book or tester. The rule is easily ducked by those >>who find it convenient to do so. > >What makes you think so? Any experience that let you arrive at this conclusion? > >I know that Crafty payed twice the entry fee last year, as Bob Hyatt could not >travel to Israel. The same should be true for Sjeng. There was no attempt to >make book authors or testers count as the program authors. > >The other engine programmers were all present. > >Maybe there is a lot to critizise with ICGA, but I am surprised how often points >are raised that people either don't know about or that are simply untrue. I've looked at the rules before and have just now looked at them again. There is enough ambiguity there to make my interpretation quite workable. Of course, the TD might interpret the rules differently. If you know for a fact that the TD would let us know how it is you know this. How much of the program must one of the programs developers take part in developing for them to qualify as one of the programs authors? One line of code? Ten? Do the comment lines count? Where to draw the line is not so easy. The data in a program are very much a part of the program. Data have a profound effect on how a program behaves. The opening book counts as data doesn't it? It's a considerable amount of data. BTW, technically, the source code itself is just another data file. It is generally not thought of that way, but it's true. In the case of C/C++, it's just another text file. Testing can have a profound effect on both the code and the data of the program. It certainly counts as an essential part of a programs development.
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