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John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

Kostiantyn Kostin · 138.8K views · 2013-08-02 · 29:59

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Part 4 of John Carmack's QuakeCon 2013 keynote, covering OpenGL, functional programming, Haskell, Lisp and Scheme, typing, multithreading, events and garbage collection.

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Cited again and again as Carmack's key public statement on functional programming and purity in game development, plus his remarks on garbage collection.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2013–2025

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ookdatnog · 2024-06 · Recommendation

I think it is, and if you don't want to take my word for it, John Carmack thinks the same :) There's an old video [0] where he talks in-depth about his explorations of functional programming. It's perhaps a bit more about Haskell than about SICP, but in it he's also quite enthusiastic about what a veteran programmer can still learn from this book. [0] [VIDEO]

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lsh · 2019-01 · Recommendation

Excellent read, I still remember a lot of it. There is also the accompanying Quakecon presentation where John Carmack talks at length about all this: [VIDEO]

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akmiller · 2017-09 · Recommendation

What you describe above is similar to what Carmack discussed at his QuakeCon keynote several years back when toying with a game engine on Haskell. Very interesting talk, [VIDEO]

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