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Fabien wrote a protocol translation program, [[PolyGlot]] to allow use of the new protocol on [[Linux]], though this is now supported natively by the powerful [[Scid vs. PC]] toolkit. Scid vs. PC itself includes Polyglot code to enable support for Polyglot opening books.
[[Marco Costalba]] replied [[Bob]] on a [[Talkchess]] thread <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58392&hilit=winboard&start=20#p650169 Re: Ugly UCI] by [[Kempelen]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2015 » [[Protocols]]</ref>
The protocol is brilliant (and you can clearly realize it was designed by a very good programmer) because allows the code needed to handle it to be:
- Straightforward
- Simple (meaning with the minimal number of 'if' branches and logic)
- General (meaning the same algorithm can handle all the different cases in an uniform fashion).
The aim of the UCI protocol is to make the code simple, that's why I think it was made for programmers by a (great) programmer.
[[Pham Hong Nguyen|Nguyen Pham]] replied [[Harm Geert Muller]] on a [[Talkchess]] thread <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72019&start=36 Re: PGN standard, its improvement and standardization] by [[Pham Hong Nguyen|Nguyen Pham]], [[CCC]], October 14, 2019 » from [[Portable Game Notation]] to [[Protocols]]</ref>
