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From: Warren Marshall
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 00:00

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> > 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.

And while they're writing that game, they're staring at it all day
everyday.  There's not going to be a maintenance programmer 3 years from
now.  When it's done, it's done.  It gets shelved and they move on to the
next project.

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.

--

Warren Marshall
"Taskmaster"

Level designer for Wheel of Time
www.wheeloftime.com

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Date: 1998/09/04
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