What made John Carmack a legend in C++ programming?

Re:What made John Carmack a legend in C++ programming? by monocasa on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:46PM (#16624036)

Honestly, he's not a great C++ programmer. I think he'd agree that he's learning, and got away with C for far longer than normal just by being a phenomenal programmer in general.

IIRC the Doom 3 renderer was originally written in C and he ported to C++ to match the rest of the codebase.

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Re:What made John Carmack a legend in C++ programming? by stefanough on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:50PM (#16624556)

This statement caught my eye. In what ways can tell that someone is a great programmer without them being good in a particular language? Can someone be a phenomenal programmer without being well versed in any particular language?

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Re:What made John Carmack a legend in C++ programming? by captain_perl on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:24PM (#16625791)

A couple famous examples are Dan Bernsteins's code style is considered weird (he was trying to write safe code his way in C) and Monty's MySQL code is considered "ugly" but runs great.

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