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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: [OT] Re: Help with Deck of cards assignment and getting it to deal...
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:05:39 -0400
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On 9/4/2014 11:12 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
> Eric Sosman wrote:
>> [...]
>>      It depends on the game at, er, hand.  There's been much mention
>> of Poker in this thread, a game in which hands are in fact compared
>> (but not in a way Comparable/Comparator can always model).  But games
>> like Bridge do not compare hands, though they compare cards.
>
> True. Or at least, I shall happily take your word for it -- I have never been
> able to make any sense at all of Bridge[*].
>
> And there are games where comparison, as such, doesn't come into it at all
> (Cheat is the example I'm thinking of -- one of the few card games I have ever
> enjoyed playing and felt I truly understood :-).
>
> [*] Always feels an axiom system with some of the axioms missing.

     Bridge is a lot like Java: The fundamentals are simple, but
nobody understands the class libraries.

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