Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:03:13 01/14/02
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On January 13, 2002 at 06:57:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>On January 13, 2002 at 06:04:22, Jonathan Parle wrote:
>
>>Fair enough...I'll leave it to the experts next time!! :-) What about Richard
>>Lang? I remember reading in the 1996 issue of CCR that he was still using
>>assembler for the engine and C+ for the interface. Does anyone know how he goes
>>about it now?
>
>I know that he was unable to improve his engine in the last years.
>
>Uri
Was he really trying? I think that he could if he were to implement many of the
techniques discovered in recent years, but that would also mean doing a
significant rewrite, and perhaps he was just tired of the whole deal. Look at
how many programmers from when he started are still in the field. Not many. Of
course we still have those exceptional dinosaurs such as Ed and Koenig from the
stand-alone days and Bob from the mainframes, but the list is very very short.
Those guys will probably be complaining about problems in their programs on
their deathbeds, looking for that last bit of tweaking to eke out a half an Elo
point. :-) Lang also had a long record of being the best (and by a lot too), so
he may have also felt he had nothing left to prove.
Albert
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