Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 06:23:23 06/29/99
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On June 29, 1999 at 08:39:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 29, 1999 at 07:10:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: > >>Oh yes, >> >>in view of Vincent's long story and his many excuses why "Diep" did not >>fare too well again (no hardware excuses possible this time), I like to >>add that meaningful *testing* is obviously a crucial part of program >>development -- not only in computer chess. >> >>If people decide to enter a world championship with an untested program, >>this is fine with me. But then, they should also stand by their decision >>and accept the blame in case of severe failure instead of whining about >>their immature and buggy code. It was their own independent decision to >>employ it in the first place, wasn't it ... >> >>=Ernst= > >I'm nowhere whining Ernst, i'm just analyzing what went wrong after >i got a question to do so. At least i can explain what went wrong >in my program. Can you? It was easy to see what went wrong with your program -- a buggy and not even deadlock-free parallel search tends to produce random numbers as its overall result quite regularly ... =Ernst=
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