A Perspective on D from game industry

[c0de517e via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 05:48:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 6/16/14, 9:24 PM, c0de517e wrote:
>> Hi everybody. I'm Angelo Pesce, the author of the post on 
>> c0de517e.
> [snip]
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> Thanks for chiming in! -- Andrei

Hi Andrei! I had a little stab at your hugely influential book in 
the post, which I've read with interest at the time.

Unfortunately I do think it gets abused, which clearly is not the 
book's fault, to the point that I'm persuaded it originated more 
bizantine, messy code than solved problems. I might though be 
biased by the fact I work in a very specific industry though.

The same in my mind goes for the GOF Patterns book (actually the 
patterns one is just bad, damaging and boring at the same time, 
it just renames existing language concepts and casts them in a OO 
mantle).

Certain concepts gained so much hype that people started applying 
them mindlessly. Crister Ericson write it well: 
http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=44 and 
http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=81

So I'm curious, do you think certain concepts went too far, that 
we should educate against some hypes and abuses, or you think 
that it's just my very partial view of the world and if looking 
at the C++ community at large, template metaprogramming is not 
abused?

What would you think of stuff like this? 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0b1/libs/geometry/doc/html/geometry/design.html 
(if you can share...)