Re:How Scary Can an Old-School Programmer Be? (2013)
by infinity0 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:31AM
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Another thing is that we don't see how their code generalises - how it performs for different scenes not shown in the demos. The world changes and one's code has to adapt to these changes, it is no good super-optimising some assembly to generate a scene in 64kb when it takes 3 years to edit that same assembly to generate a different scene.
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Re:How Scary Can an Old-School Programmer Be? (2013)
by throwaway2016a on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:11AM
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Depends on your goal. If you're playing code golf and the whole point is a small executable then it is "good"
But to a point I think you were making, skills to do that do not necessarily translate to real-world software engineering.