If anyone other than Carmack wrote this, I doubt it would be so well received so I'm glad he did. We all have our own programming dogma that we love and defend

If anyone other than Carmack wrote this, I doubt it would be so well received so I'm glad he did. We all have our own programming dogma that we love and defend religiously, but we should never stop asking if our code is truthfully, objectively, clear and easy to read, prone to bugs and/or runs efficiently. "Best practices" can get you 80% of the way there, but a developer should never stop questioning the quality of their code, even if it contradicts the sacred rules.