The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner)

Just wanted to say a huge thanks for posting this. As I kid I looked up to these guys for making badass games, without a lot of thought into what that actually entailed at the time. I haven't though much about Id since then, but now I can look up to those guys again for their innovation, and their ability to leverage the shit out of what was available to them. Awesome post!

Bell Labs, that darn name gets everywhere, I wonder what happened to that place?

Read Masters of Doom. One of my favorite books. http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...

John is a genius. No doubt about it. But he didn't come up with it, he just recognized it as a useful optimization: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/