Exceptional coding style

[Peter Alexander]

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 00:41:51 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> 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
>
> Probably because typing with the keyboard directly is darn 
> faster than anything that might involve the editor guessing 
> what you're typing (or you using the mouse).

There's nothing stopping a more superior method from still using 
the keyboard.

What amazes me is how much language complexity is added just to 
make text editing more bearable.