Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 23:14:33 12/22/05
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On December 23, 2005 at 00:44:26, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 22, 2005 at 22:15:18, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On December 22, 2005 at 20:33:50, Zappa wrote: >> >>>A different view: >>> >>>Hydra, too weak to show at Paderborn >>>Zappa, the best thing since sliced bread >>>Fruit, proving once again that KISS works. >>>Toga II, the clone of fruit with literally 50 lines changed that people somehow >>>credit as a real engine >> >>And isn't it true the the author of Toga initially tried to claim that the code >>was 100% his? > >I do not remember such claim. >Did he claim that he wrote 100% of the code? > >There is a difference between claiming nothing and claiming that the code is >100% your code. > Uri, he let the testers believe they were testing an original program. He only admitted the truth after they confronted him with a mountain of evidence that his program was a Fruit clone. If they hadn't discovered the truth, one has to wonder if he ever would have admitted it himself. He changed 50 lines out of 15,000, and we're supposed to consider it a separate engine, different enough from Fruit that it deserves a new name? No way. -Peter
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