Who’s down with .CPP
KeithHandy posted in Coding, Lists on September 27th, 2006
As an amateur programmer with the organizational skills of your typical guitar-beating neo-hippie, eventually one accumulates so much code that one starts to forget where to find such-and-such neat trick that actually worked once upon a rainy day. So I figured I’d better go through my files now and write up a little reference guide for myself, while I still have any mental faculties at all. (Sorry if the indentation makes you seasick.)
It’s good to see that most of what I found in my old brainstorms has actually been done since then. What’s a little unnerving is finding some older stuff, literally hundreds of lines long, and not having the faintest idea what it is or what it’s supposed to do. COMMENTS ARE FOR PUSSIES. Uh huh. Keep telling yourself that.
Amidst much old and embarrassing garbage, buried deep in a sub-folder named simply OLD, one lonely and neglected project called tunnel sparkled off my eye like the edge of a favorite old toy in an attic. It felt bittersweet to look it over and recall how much love I had invested in it. It was an ambitious way to distort perspective and create the illusion that you were going “through” an arbitrary series of still images. Each aspect of the project was a project unto itself. It’s not that I couldn’t revive it, but it seems unimportant now, like that idea you had for the ultimate band in seventh grade.
