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Re: Game announcements on LGDC



> Hm, not necessarily.  There are still quite a few programmers that never
> heard of Dijkstra or anything, and that happily continue writing obscured
> switch's, gotos, funky 4-function-combo recursions, etc, all in the name
> of optimisation, ofcourse.  It wouldn't be particularly malicious, imho, to
> label that kind of contributions as "Warning : unstructured programming" or
> something ;) Anything else which does meet a certain standard of structuring,
> couldn't be really judged upon, because that would become a matter of style.

What about code that, while correctly structured, is still incomprehensible
due to:

1) completely obscure, typedef, variable and function names
2) a complete lack of comments?

If you've ever looked at the sources to the Quake 1 tools qbsp and vis, you
know of what I speak :-/.
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