<story><title>John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archagon</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s refreshing how humble Carmack always sounds in his Twitter feed. I&amp;#x27;ve found that old school game programmers tend to be hardline and a bit belligerent about their code; Carmack, on the other hand, often tweets about going against his better instincts and exploring new technologies. Not a lot of sarcasm or negativity at all. If only more people had Twitter streams as pleasant and informative as his!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zelphyr</author><text>I second this.  Its something we can all take a lesson from.  Unfortunately I see too FAR many programmers who model their persona&amp;#x27;s after Kanye West.&lt;p&gt;I had the great fortune of meeting Steve Bourne, inventor of &amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;sh.  If ever there was a guy who could accept any and all accolades it would be him.  Instead he was most gracious and humble and spent all his time showing interest in our work as well as answering our questions about the invention of the shell and Unix.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of; did you know he was the first alpha tester of Unix?  When Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie were writing it they would hand the magnetic tapes over to Steve Bourne and have him test it.</text></comment>
<story><title>John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archagon</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s refreshing how humble Carmack always sounds in his Twitter feed. I&amp;#x27;ve found that old school game programmers tend to be hardline and a bit belligerent about their code; Carmack, on the other hand, often tweets about going against his better instincts and exploring new technologies. Not a lot of sarcasm or negativity at all. If only more people had Twitter streams as pleasant and informative as his!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I think this has been a theme with him the past couple of years. He&amp;#x27;s gone into Haskell territory, and has recently been an extremely vocal proponent of immutable structures (coming from the man behind some pretttty fast programs, that&amp;#x27;s a nice cold shower for a lot of people), and generally higher-level thinking.&lt;p&gt;I think this is a consequence of a lot of these languages getting a lot nicer tooling recently, as well as other FP ideas being pulled into newer languages.</text></comment>