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This is indeed true; read any interview with Carmack from right before HW acceleration became mandatory.

Moreover, Carmack never makes a statement that functional programming is the future anywhere in this article.

For every Carmack there are 10 me's, and for every professional exploit builder there is an army of script kidies.

How does someone like John Carmack continue to find passionate areas of interest for himself?

People will code up support for it anyway, but I suppose Carmack is aiming for power instead of popularity.

John Carmack was writing Doom's engine, Ken Silverman the Build engine, etc.

ID, at least while Carmack was there, was very very good about releasing their last-gen engine tech once all licensees had published their games.

It's incidental that a lot of those skills are fairly universal and low-level, which gives us the false impression that Carmack is a generalist.

There was a thread a while back about this exact topic, and someone mentioned that John Carmack doesn't know SQL or anything about relational databases.

I think Carmack always has but id software used to claim a patent(!) on the Doom WAD file format made all user editing illegal.

I've always considered myself good at understanding how systems work together, mainly with web applications from front (html/css/js) to back (http/app/services/sql), but Carmack does that with very low level/detailed applications...

Would you rather take coding advice from the person who wrote a ball of mud in PHP, or John Carmack?

According to John Carmack, the maximum acceptable latency for a VR system is 20ms.

I love to read anything about Carmack, it just blows my mind that he re-wrote all his engines from scratch.