@ID_AA_Carmack That papers are full of pseudocode, which cannot compile or be otherwise verified, is load-bearing in the extreme.

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• Author: Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow)
• Posted: 2025-12-23 23:22:28

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That papers are full of pseudocode, which cannot compile or be otherwise verified, is load-bearing in the extreme. I think there is a certain cultivated snobbery against dirty actual code that helps protect this unadmittable situation.

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