It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
John CarmackThe Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various โmodernโ C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.
John CarmackThe situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.
John Carmack