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		figglesonrails on March 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like la... C NOT GOOD FOR LARGE PROJECTS? `MAKE QUAKE-C` Though for Doom3 and on, they did switch to C++, which makes absolutely minimal usage of the language features, heh. I guess old habits die hard.

burgerbrain on March 8, 2012 [–]

"they did switch to C++, which makes absolutely minimal usage of the language features"

This is true of almost every C++ project I've ever worked on. Unfortunately they all used a slightly different minimal set of language features...

figglesonrails on March 8, 2012 | [–]

I guess you never worked on boost.

burgerbrain on March 9, 2012 | | [–]

On it? No. With it? Yes.. Unfortunately.

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