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
We are using writing to communicate between people for thousands
of year now. This is clearly the most efficient way to express
idea, including to a computer.
