John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 17:12:29 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 12:50:02 UTC, PauloPinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:49:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 11:35:29 UTC, Bruno Medeiros 
>>> wrote:
>>>> "Hardware does get faster more rapidly than software gets 
>>>> slower -- I'm finding Eclipse perfectly usable on modern 
>>>> hardware."
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/383334141078429697
>>>>
>>>> I would have liked some more details on what he is using 
>>>> Eclipse for though. Is it Android development? And even so, 
>>>> is it just Java or C/C++ too? Especially significant given 
>>>> Manu's recent comments that:
>>>> "I've never met a C++ developer that likes Eclipse ;)"
>>>> :p
>>>
>>> This guy has been trying to re-write on of his old games in 
>>> Haskell (can't remember which one).
>>>
>>> Are you seriously considering him a typical C++ game 
>>> developer? :D
>>
>> Doom, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A
>>
>> As for C++, he is one of the guys in the industry pushing 
>> forward for using static analysis in C++.
>>
>> http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysis/
>>
>> And actually uses C++ since Doom 3 (2004), 
>> http://kotaku.com/454293019.
>>
>> As for his aversion to C++, I remember the performance 
>> discussions about C and Pascal versus Assembly. Hey back then, 
>> even with my Pascal background, I was convinced that Assembly 
>> was more than enough!
>>
>> Then came the discussions of C vs C++, with personalities like 
>> Carmack and Abrash taking the C side.
>>
>> And nowadays, like C has taken most Assembly use cases, just 
>> to be followed by C++. Now we can even watch a few OS being 
>> coded in C++, which was unthinkable back in the C vs C++ war 
>> days.
>>
>> So I always smile when I see discussions about performance of 
>> language implementations.
>
> Carmack is a very humble C++ programmer, though. In one of the 
> last QuakeCon keynotes he said something like "I think I have 
> nearly figured out how to use C++."

It's more that unskilled programmers unknowingly exaggerate their 
proficiency, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect