On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 00:41:51 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 23:57:44 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 19:24:25 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Quite a nice read on the coding style used in Doom.
http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code?post=56177550
The sad part is that after all these decades, we're still
_writing_ code, and we're doing it in essentially the exact
same way as was done 30 years ago using a text editor.
For whatever reason, no other means of constructing software
programs has really taken off, and I have to wonder why.
--rt
Probably because typing with the keyboard directly is darn
faster than anything that might involve the editor guessing
what you're typing (or you using the mouse).
There's nothing stopping a more superior method from still using
the keyboard.
What amazes me is how much language complexity is added just to
make text editing more bearable.
