The cruftiness of source code is directly proportional to the amount of time spent working on it times the number of people working on it.
Has someone created such a law before?
Ward Cunningham calls it technical debt. It's what you accrue when you don't mercilessly simplify the design of your application every time you check in.
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Has someone created such a law before?
Ward Cunningham calls it technical debt. It's what you accrue when you don't mercilessly simplify the design of your application every time you check in.
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.ht ml
There really is a such a thing as a vertex shader, but it's not really plausible because nVidia could correct it by adding a hack to the drivers.