I think some of the most solid and forward thinking advice I've seen and used in my C++ have come from his books. As for Carmack: I sort of meandered into C++

I think some of the most solid and forward thinking advice I've seen and used in my C++ have come from his books. As for Carmack: I sort of meandered into C++ with Doom 3 – I was an experienced C programmer with OOP background from NeXT’s Objective-C, so I just started writing C++ without any proper study of usage and idiom. In retrospect, I very much wish I had read Effective C++ and some other material. A couple of the other programmers had prior C++ experience, but they mostly followed the stylistic choices I set. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3NDQ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3NDQ