Hmm, but if you found out later that Quake's codebase was ugly, would you think less of John Carmack? I love beautiful code, but its an ideal to be achieved...

Hmm, but if you found out later that Quake's codebase was ugly, would you think less of John Carmack? I love beautiful code, but its an ideal to be achieved... It can't be as important as the product itself.