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From: Matthew Kruk
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00

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Duggan wrote:
> ...
> 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.

I have my doubts.  In the 20 odd years that I've been programming or
looking at source code (in all sorts of languages), rarely have I seen
what appears to be an effort to "clean up" code.  If anything, the
opposite is true.  The only time you see "cleaning" is when someone goes
in and rewrites it completely.

If you think about it, it goes a long way in explaining the phrase you
see often "every program has bugs".  I'm not saying it's the sole reason
but I definitely think it doesn't help.

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From: Matthew Kruk <mkruk@netcom.ca>
Subject: Re: Cool jobs at a cool company.
Date: 1998/07/08
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