Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:04:58 08/21/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 13:15:28, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >I am pretty certain that also other authors than Bob could become state of the >art. But someone like Fabien must hurry up if he wants to equalize with Bob >within the next twenty years - concerning the "giving" to computerchess. I must >honestly say that I almost detest someone like Ole-Per (spelling?) who even >prefers to remain anonymous. > >It is one thing to be a good programmer. But it's another aspect if you are >perceiving yourself as a member of a field. What I've read from Fabien was >mostly (from the interview with Quisinsky) that it should be allowed to copy as >much code as possible from other programs. For me the main problem is that people copy without understanding. You can divide the job of programming the same algorithm of fruit to 2 parts: 1)Understanding all the parts of fruit 2)Writing code that does the same as fruit without copy and paste based on a different structure. I guess that 2 is the easier task so not allowing copy and paste is no big problem for people who want to understand and it is only a problem for people who want to get fast gains from fruit. Perhaps you remember. I support the >integration of already invented tools but I would also like to see the reverse >and it would disturb the picture if now after a first little success the two >winners would go commercial. Hey, let them do what they want, but I wouldn't buy >it. Collectors might well be satisfied. > >BTW what is actually going on with MOVEI. I was away for some time and can't >find its news. I continue to work about it but nothing new and I am considering rewriting it. The main problem is that movei is badly written. I looked at fruit source code and one of the things to learn from it is how to write better code. I also want to improve the code that I have so I will probably try to get some improvement for the next WBEC tournament and I also may start to rewrite it more similiar to fruit but not with copy and paste but with using the same ideas as fruit for detecting bugs and other things. Using different structure also will force me to understand what I am doing(and I am not interested in copying without understanding) Uri
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