Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:12:13 12/13/05
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On December 13, 2005 at 15:17:52, Tord Romstad wrote: >On December 13, 2005 at 14:08:41, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>I have worked with hundreds of programmers (programming since 1976). By looking >>at your code it is clear to me that you are well above average. > >It is certainly possible that I vastly underestimate the incompetence of >average programmers. I have lived a very sheltered life, and have always >had very intelligent and knowledgeable people around me. Apparently so. Your code is better than 3/4 of the chess programs that are open source. Also, anyone who can write a functional chess program is better than the average programmer (who would fail in the attempt). You would think that only the brightest and the best would be attracted to programming. But this is not the case. There are a lot of nitwit programmers.
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