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Subject: Re: Is test available or secret?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 02:17:07 01/05/00

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On January 05, 2000 at 04:09:49, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Sorry I haven't read every message about your test and I wonder is test
>available or do you keep it private?

Private and not cooked.

> Personally I doubt very much if any
>test will ever reveal real strength of program.

So did I. In fact, this was not my purpose when I started building my test. But
it happens to get results similar to the SSDF list. Expaling why is what I am
interested in, but it is difficult not having the foggiest idea of programming.

> Do You test book, learning,
>use of time, use of permanent brain...

Nope. Just tactics.

>Actually if somebody invents good test, it will spoil fun from test playing!!

Come on! Playing the games is the fun part. Tests are horribly boring.

Enrique

>thanks Jouni



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