[lutusp]

> They're written in the style that Carmack describes, and I have methods that span more than 1k lines of code.

I don't think that's the kind of "inlining" being discussed -- to me that's the sign of a program that was transferred from BASIC or COBOL into a more modern language, but without any refactoring or even a grasp if its operation.

I think the similarity between inlining for speed, and inlining to avoid thinking very hard, is more a qualititive than a quantitative distinction.

[dllthomas]

"I think the similarity between inlining for speed, and inlining to avoid thinking very hard, is more a qualititive than a quantitative distinction."

I think what's being discussed here is quite either of those - this seems to be "inlining for visibility" and possibly "inlining for simplicity".

[dllthomas]

Is not quite either of those.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

Have you seriously never written a 1000 line routine in C from scratch?

[lutusp]

Sure, before I knew how to write maintainable code. Before I cared to understand my own code months later.

My first best-seller was Apple Writer (1979) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), written in assembly language. Even then I tried to create structure and namespaces where none existed, with modest success.

[mdda]

Another great comeback for the annals of HN (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083)