This is really a great coincidence. I was talking to a friend of mine two days ago about code that we have read for pleasure. I said that the Doom source code w

This is really a great coincidence. I was talking to a friend of mine two days ago about code that we have read for pleasure. I said that the Doom source code was so surprising because the logic was so clean and elegant. One felt that the code did the most obvious thing to do, rather than using unnecessary cleverness. Even in this mail, John Carmack favors elegance.