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

["Persson, Magnus" <persson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not criticizing the protocol. I just want to stress the point that in order to make people use it is has to be *easy* to do so. It is an entirely practical thing. The specification or ver 2(draft) is kind of nice and cute as a specification. But in order to make it useful there should be examples such as what a correct input and output could be, and also perhaps short (that is not a complete implementation) programming examples for different languages and os's. I like GTP. When I first saw I thought that it was a great idea. But every time I looked at I refrained from doing it because I could not understand how to do it. I am afraid that I am not the only one hobby programmer who so far has turned away from the protocol because of the same reasons.

Best wishes.

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Magnus Persson
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Pogonyshev [mailto:pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sonntag, 14. März 2004 22:56
> To: computer-go
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] GTP and Tourney in SmartGo 1.4
> 
> Persson, Magnus wrote:
> > But I want to return to the pipe-thing. Windows has no simple
> communication
> > available in the OS as far as I know. You *have* to be a good
> experienced
> > Windows programmer or spend 10 hours just to enable the communication.
> 
> Well, you obviously cannot blame it on GTP, right?  And any communication
> protocol obviosly needs a channel to communicate over, no matter if it is
> hard or not to use that channel.
> 
> Paul
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