>I lost, but winning was not the point. Playing was. :) Ha, that reminds me something from the book "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder: https://en.wi

>I lost, but winning was not the point. Playing was. :) Ha, that reminds me something from the book "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine From the article above: [ The motivational system is akin to the game of pinball, the analogy being that if you win this round, you get to play the game again; that is, build the next generation of computers. ] The idea is described better in the book, though. [ The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. ]