Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:41:59 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 20:24:30, Vincent Vega wrote:
>Can somebody please explain to me why are chess programmers so seemingly unable
>to create a decent user interface? Half of the programs run only under Firtz
>interface or under X/Winboard. While it seems like it is a logical choice not
>to reinvent the wheel, those interfaces are very far from being good. They are
>so limited and so unintuitive.
That isn't very constructive criticism. It isn't that I disagree or not, but
could you provide some clearer examples of what you mean?
>The other half is much worse - how can anyone
>justify having a DOS program in the 21st century?
The same way someone can justify even spending anytime writing a chess program
that won't help their financial situation sufficiently nor justify the time
spent (even if it _were_ in Windows).
>
>And before somebody says that it's hard, why don't you do it yourself, blah,
>blah - I just finished a 200,000 LOC commercial program with UI complexity much
>greater than any chess program ever had, so I know it can be done and no I won't
>do it unless there is good money involved.
Big words from an anonymous account. I can't imagine anyone asking Tarantino for
your address to help design the newest super GUI for their chess program. In
other words it is difficult to take this seriously without any credentials. No
offense intended.
Albert Silver
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