Re: [computer-go] GTP and Tourney in SmartGo 1.4

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <200403120202.40553.pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Pogonyshev 
<pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> Nick Wedd wrote:
> > Insisting on GTP will exclude most competitors, as they don't support
> > it.  I have heard that it is hard to implement, with two line-feeds
> > having a different meaning from one line-feed (my personal opinion is
> > that significant whitespace is a really stupid idea.)
> Did you even try to look it at GTP before firing up words like "stupid"?
> Can you explain me why writing
>
>       printf("= here is my answer\n\n");
>
> is more difficult than writing
>
>       printf("= here is my answer\n");
>
> huh?
It's not difficult at all.  And on my system, it won't generate two 
linefeeds.  You just confirmed my view that significant whitespace is a 
really stupid idea.

> And please enlighten me about what is easy to implement, GMP?  Which is
> unreadable by human, undebugable, unextendable and lacks even support of
> komi?
I was not advocating the use of GMP.  Indeed, in my previous posting I 
pointed out that few programs implemented it correctly.  My point was 
that many current programs do not support GTP, so requiring entrants to 
support it will keep many away.

Nick
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