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Article #1314Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
From: Rylan
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 00:00
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Warren Marshall wrote in message <35F02376.836CDED0@accessone.com>... >> > From what I remember poking around it and the Wolfenstein 3D code, it >> > is very spaghetti-esque and commenting is not very useful. Of course, >> > I believe iD once said that both of these were early versions, perhaps >> > before they got it in gear. > >Bear mind mind too that game programmers live in a somewhat different world >than application programmers. ... once the game is done, they move on. >Cleaning up the code is really a worthless effort for them since they're >never going to see it again. >Kind of a different story than a large application that has to have new >versions made of it and stuff... I'm not defending sloppy code, but I think >that this is where some of it stems from. Or maybe it is because code gods like John Carmack & co are so brilliant they don't need any comments or docs in ANY of their code! Scarryyyy thought.... Spawned By Rylan Is truth beauty or beauty truth?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: fd9bd,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gidfd9bd,public X-Google-Thread: 10385a,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid10385a,public X-Google-Thread: 102bfa,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid102bfa,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f65bb,467199fddf4f75c8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf65bb,public X-Google-Thread: 1159c5,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid1159c5,public X-Google-Thread: 1032ba,c005c42eb5660d8a X-Google-Attributes: gid1032ba,public From: "Rylan" <rylan@intekom.co.za> Subject: Re: Cool jobs at a cool company. Date: 1998/09/04 Message-ID: <6spbbu$a14$1@news2.saix.net> X-Deja-AN: 387916804 References: <35a107a3.0@nnrp1.news.uk.psi.net> <6nrb7v$2bh$1@nntp.msstate.edu> <01bdc1ba$90c74c20$8e77e4cf@default> <35A21B61.1B3B@CWA.de> <Pine.LNX.3.95.980707181431.163T-100000@metroid.ml.org> <35A34402.84AE8175@zess.uni-siegen.de> <35a3b84f.6021593@news.wwd.net> <35A3E81C.D19E81DC@netcom.ca> <35F02376.836CDED0@accessone.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: The South African Internet Exchange Reply-To: "Rylan" <rylan@inbtekom.co.za> Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,alt.sb.programmer,aus.computers.logic-prog,comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.graphics.rendering.misc,comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.programming