I think that has a lot more to do with Carmack being at a small company where there was no-one to say no to him. If you were the CTO of a three-person startup y

I think that has a lot more to do with Carmack being at a small company where there was no-one to say no to him. If you were the CTO of a three-person startup you most definitely could do whatever weird, esoteric programming you liked.