From:	quacci AT vera DOT com (jon)
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Subject:	Re: "Are Allegro's routines fast enough to write Quake-like games?" - No.
Date:	Sun, 25 May 1997 00:37:33 GMT
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On Sat, 24 May 1997 14:34:52 -0700, SpankE <dingfam AT imag DOT net> wrote:

>Carmack and Abrash both state that Quake was written in 100% ANSI C
>aswell.

This is not the same thing as saying it was 100% C, just that what C
they used was 100% ANSI. 

Anyway, they must have used at least some assembler for some things,
I'd think.

But I do remember reading in one of Abrash's books about his and
Carmack's absolute belief that finding better algorithms is more
important than optimizing code. So it would make some sense that
they'd be able to do most of what they did in plain C.

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