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Re:Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origin... by p1necone on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:03AM (#23648587)
The fact that the game has been seeing continuous development of relatively complex new features for this long means the code can't be too horrible. Perhaps very idiosyncratic and particular to Tarns personal preferences, but certainly not unmaintainable (this is just an assumption though).
Re:Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origin... by bregma on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:39AM (#23650871)
I have maintained a fork of LCS. The code is unspeakably horrible. It's like its been run through an obfuscator. It requires a hardened, dedicated developer who has developed life-long immunity to code cooties to hack it.
Re:Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origin... by larzang on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:09AM (#23651552)
He did start out as an academic/scientific programmer, so yeah.