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To add to that, Sweeney hasn't really been a graphics programmer since the late 90's.

And Tim Sweeney did a lot of development on Unreal 4 on his own[1].

This is similar to a talk that Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) gave about creating a new language for games, that I thought was interesting.

Tim Sweeney answered this himself in April.

The series centered around Dennis Sweeney (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) who, after a successful career in the software business, returns home to open a local division for the company he works for.

Tim Sweeney showed me this trick a long time ago, which he combined with run-time code patching so that an arithmetic operation would be speculatively compiled as either fixnum or bignum based on observed run-time behavior.

[3] Well, not unless you're Sweeney Todd.

I like how right as he starts to approach the specific problems that Tim Sweeney and Epic have to deal with in handling what is fundamentally a mutability problem(unified game state), he sweeps them under the rug so that he can go back to talking about how functional code is beautiful, disregarding that it is insufficient for the problem at hand.

Sweeney reckons it's a bit of both: "Game development is at the cutting edge in many disciplines.

It might even end up fulfilling some of the goals from Tim Sweeney's "The Next Mainstream Programming Language" talk from way back.

Tim Sweeney raises some PL flamebait: -- "Are games at the forefront of physics and computer science research or forever lagging behind academia?

> "For example, Latanya Sweeney [21] from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has demonstrated that 87 percent of the U.

Ryan Trinkle (one of the developers behind this) gave a talk about why they are using Haskell (echoing Tim Sweeney's talk, but adding his own perspective) at a meeting of BostonHaskell.

I don't know of real world examples of game developed with immutable / reactive patterns, outside of thought experiments like Carmack's (Or Tim Sweeney's), or a few simple games in Haskell, Elm, etc.

I don't know enough about history of gaming to judge this article on that merit (personally, I would only list 3 notable games programmers: Newell, Sweeney, Carmack, and a dozen or so games).