Re:Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now p...
by sublinear on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:14AM
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> even bad works tend to carry the exact same level of language
Maybe this is one of the better times to encourage "literate programming"? If the majority of the source is detailed prose comments instead of "code", you would be able to tell. I strongly believe that if a new project is interesting enough for someone to be reading the source of a literate codebase, the prose that goes with it will be distinct enough that the first publisher would necessarily have to be human.
Maybe this is one of the better times to encourage "literate programming"? If the majority of the source is detailed prose comments instead of "code", you would be able to tell. I strongly believe that if a new project is interesting enough for someone to be reading the source of a literate codebase, the prose that goes with it will be distinct enough that the first publisher would necessarily have to be human.