Quote:Original post by ricardo_ruiz_lopez
Am I the only one who believes Carmack is not a genius? He only reads papers and implement them in a not very clean way. As far as I know, he only invented a shadow algorithm (that was already implemented)

I wish the average programmer I meet would read more papers, I know plenty of them that haven't read one since graduating college.

I don't think I would call John Carmack a genius, but only because I use that term very sparingly. And the term "rockstar programmer" is just plain ridiculous. But in any case, I believe his work speaks for itself.