Author: gerold daniels
Date: 11:19:19 10/26/05
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On October 26, 2005 at 09:08:09, Swaminathan wrote: >This post is questioning,nothing against the charter > >Is writing a chess program as hobby a waste of time?A long time ago,Bruce said >that most people can write a program,meaning it's not hard to write but it takes >a lot of time to produce a bug free engine >and also what does the tester benefit from testing a lot and producing a whole >wade of logs,games and results? >You are not going to benefit a lot of money from releasing the product >commercial unless it is more like chessmaster >There are already a lots of engines available for free download,I don't see any >point in producing a new engine no matter how strong it is,and what unique style >the program plays >I know most programmers here would disagree with me and some testers would flame >me,but atleast this is a positive criticsm in question, and it is not against >the efforts of a programmer nor against the hobby time pass of testers,I respect >their work.You are not going to flame the work of Dan Brown when he brings >criticsm against christianity. >PS:I'm not gonna respond to sub thread message if it contains rudeness,flaming >etc > > >Swami When a person completes a project that is hard and enjoys doing it.It is very rewarding. When i design a house and built it after it is complete i can stand back and look at it and say . I did That. :) If i could build a chess program it would make me very happy even if i didn't get paid to make it. Gerold.
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