How many programmers are working on ED?
- Thread starter Old Duck
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We do know (from what was said in the FX livestream) that the "majority of the team" will be working on Q4 content for release at the end of next year.
As far as I can tell:
Mr Phillips is the main code monkey
Tj writes the bugs
and Jenner... Well Jenner is just a horse of course
The rest of the people you see are the other forum mods who from time to time are required to do something - not sure what though...
In all honesty it is rare to have just one giant open plan office with the entire team in one place. I think what we've seen is just on part of the offices with some of the team.
Mr Phillips is the main code monkey
Tj writes the bugs
and Jenner... Well Jenner is just a horse of course
The rest of the people you see are the other forum mods who from time to time are required to do something - not sure what though...
In all honesty it is rare to have just one giant open plan office with the entire team in one place. I think what we've seen is just on part of the offices with some of the team.
Don't know yet, still compiling.
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
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Just watched the video again and it looks like there are at least 50 individual people and I am pretty sure they didn't show everyone...
Don't forget to add in the call center workers
I'm disappointed with his thread. Thought it was the set up for a joke.
Here's my try, though I'm sure someone could do better:
A: None! All the code is created using procedural generation.
Did you finish it?
My work here is done!
COBOL Is still used in some places, personally I never really got into in, more of C++ guy these days but only for fun stuff I use for work these days. Very pleased I am no longer a coder as I get far more time to myself.
Here's the thing about programmers, because I know at least 4 too many.
They're an odd lot, and not all of them work in offices or cubicles.
One I know does have an office, and will walk into it on a Monday, after the morning meeting, close and lock the door behind him, and not leave until Wednesday evening.
His office is largely devoid of furnishings, instead he has an over-sized beanbag chair, a projector, a mini-fridge, a microwave and little cook top. And when he leaves on Wednesday, he doesn't return until the following Monday.
He's also one of the best at what he does, and is afforded his little excentricities.
Another I know does most all of his programming on a laptop, which goes with him where ever he might be - which has included the beach, amusement parks, and a camp site on Mt. Fiji. Like the above, he is an industry leader in his line of work and has worked for little companies like Microsoft and Adobe in the past. Again, his level of aptitude affords him a great deal of leeway.
Other less extreme examples, I know plenty of work-from-home, telecommute, video-conference programmers, including one I work with right now who hasn't actually been in the office since last year's Halloween party.
So it's entirely possible that those pictures shown show only those programmers who actually work from the office. Who knows how many work remotely, or from the broom closet, or on the roof.
COBOL and Fortran.. I despised both, and did all my programming in 8086 Assembly - which was about three years and I never wanted to do it again, and haven't.
They're an odd lot, and not all of them work in offices or cubicles.
One I know does have an office, and will walk into it on a Monday, after the morning meeting, close and lock the door behind him, and not leave until Wednesday evening.
His office is largely devoid of furnishings, instead he has an over-sized beanbag chair, a projector, a mini-fridge, a microwave and little cook top. And when he leaves on Wednesday, he doesn't return until the following Monday.
He's also one of the best at what he does, and is afforded his little excentricities.
Another I know does most all of his programming on a laptop, which goes with him where ever he might be - which has included the beach, amusement parks, and a camp site on Mt. Fiji. Like the above, he is an industry leader in his line of work and has worked for little companies like Microsoft and Adobe in the past. Again, his level of aptitude affords him a great deal of leeway.
Other less extreme examples, I know plenty of work-from-home, telecommute, video-conference programmers, including one I work with right now who hasn't actually been in the office since last year's Halloween party.
So it's entirely possible that those pictures shown show only those programmers who actually work from the office. Who knows how many work remotely, or from the broom closet, or on the roof.
My work here is done!
COBOL Is still used in some places, personally I never really got into in, more of C++ guy these days but only for fun stuff I use for work these days. Very pleased I am no longer a coder as I get far more time to myself.
COBOL and Fortran.. I despised both, and did all my programming in 8086 Assembly - which was about three years and I never wanted to do it again, and haven't.
1. Get pen and paper.
2. Go into game ..
3. Click on "CREDITS"
4. Make a line for each person you read.
5. Come back and let us know. :>
Cobol is still used in a lot of banks. Its not going away any time soon.
Someone made an Object Orientated version of Cobol too. Sicko.
Someone made an Object Orientated version of Cobol too. Sicko.
My work here is done!
COBOL Is still used in some places, personally I never really got into in, more of C++ guy these days but only for fun stuff I use for work these days. Very pleased I am no longer a coder as I get far more time to myself.
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
COBOL taught me coding discipline... that and the threat of being called at 03:00 AM by my team leader if my code didn't have a relevant error message that would help to solve the problem.....
