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Subject: Re: Chess programming and lisp

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:04:25 01/23/06

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On January 21, 2006 at 12:57:47, James Swafford wrote:

>On January 21, 2006 at 12:45:04, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2006 at 11:49:03, James Swafford wrote:
>>
>>>On January 21, 2006 at 02:02:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>Who wants a chess engine consisting almost entirely of parenthesis?
>>>
>>>Surely you can do better than "the syntax sucks."
>>
>>I am pretty sure Dann was joking.  A similar joke about
>>C would be to say that nobody would want a chess engine
>>consisting almost entirely of semicolons, asterisks and
>>curly braces.
>
>Maybe he was... but I'm not so sure. :)  Either way after
>rereading what I wrote it sounds harsher than what I meant.

It was the "insert standard joke here" bit.  I should have included a smiley.

At any rate, I felt no offense whatsoever.
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