Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2010-02-26 04:45 am (UTC)I want to believe that they had a lot of foresight and made the code very modular and abstracted away all hardware concerns, so that it's easy to port. I want to think that the codebase is beautiful and loosely-coupled, that there are unit tests everywhere to quickly find regressions on new hardware.
But I don't.
My mental image of Rayman 2 is a dark, locked room with three or four programmers huddled in a corner, clutching laptops and half-empty bottles of whiskey, haunted by the prospect of looking at that code ever again.
The door opens and a triumphant businessman in an expensive suit grins and says "we got a new platform!". He flips a small object into the room and closes the door; as the lock clicks an iPhone clatters to the ground.
The programmers groan, and open laptops and bottles in one motion.