[computer-go] Remarks on the Indigo-Paper

[steve uurtamo]

> A programm is in my opinion best improved by (the
> points are sorted by 
> priority):
> 1) Making a good development environment. E.g. a
> good GUI, a database to 
> store test positions, a set of testcases, a well
> defined procedure to test 
> the versions, Coding standards.

1) is nice for other people to understand what
you're doing, but it doesn't say much about the
strength of the internal algorithms/ideas
involved, which will always be the limiting
feature of a go program, wouldn't you agree?

even the best gui with the clearest DB schema,
a fantastic testing setup, versioning, and
beautiful code is merely a sort of antiseptic
oddity if it doesn't play go very well...

s.

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