That’s Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming” which Nicholas is holding.
This summer’s blockbuster sensation:
PROGRAMMER RAGE II
ESCAPE FROM NEW SOGWOOD
IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC CITY, VEINS WILL EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR HEAD!
So let’s talk about what I’ve done recently like a man of action… uh, okay, what have I done recently? Well, here’s a short list of improvements and debugging tasks that have gone into Revisions 38A, 38B and C that represent the work of PEOPLE WITH SHOTGUNS (or debuggers) IN A DARK CITY OF PANDEMONIUM (otherwise known as a codebase):
– Autosaves! We now have autosaves. At first, this was good, but then it was bad because autosaves would occasionally crash while saving. GRAAAAAGH! The solution, to be deployed for Revision 38C is that we now have two autosaves, and they rotate; that way, you always have one working autosave to work from. The end goal, of course, is to not have save games crash – an intermediate goal is probably to save the new save game to a temporary save, then once the save process has completed to delete the old save and overwrite it with the new one. AESTHETICS ARE FOR THE WEAK!
