> Outside of Valve I don't think many developers ... pay enough attention to game design to consistently produce quality games

That's because a game is too dependent on Art + Tech. You can have the world's greatest designer but if they don't understand how to capitalize on Tech & Art _tailored_ for their project you're dead in the water.

There are few Game Designers that are recognized as delivering the goods. Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, etc. How many of these game designers do the general public even know??
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> Games are an awkward state of limbo these days,

AAA games maybe, but not indie. Content creation costs are spiraling out of control. People are getting fed up with grind-for-gear ooh shiny with shallow gameplay.

Minecraft just reach 54 million across all platforms.
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That is not telling the complete picture. I had dinner with Romero a few years back at one E3 and specifically asked him "Why did Daikatana fail?" not knowing how that would go.

He said 2 reasons:

* Hired people in the wrong order. He said you need to hire your most experienced people *first*.
* He messed up.

The design was only part of the problem.

That may be a matter of opinion and perspective as well.

Those are late compositions in Greek and clearly not part of the original Hebrew Bible (properly called the Tanakh.)

The books you mention, along with the so-called New Testament books, both those declared 'canonical' by the Imperial Roman authorities and the other books that were banned instead, along with the Talmud, are all in my mind defensible and even in cases valuable, as Midrash, as Commentary, as a record of what men at the time thought on some important subjects - but NOT as scripture to be elevated to stand with the Tanakh, let alone to actually be set ON TOP of the Bible proper as so many do.

> There is no block level scope.

. /sarcasm. DING! We got a winner.

That WAS the point about the _shitty design_ of Javascript: The LACK of proper scope similar to other languages it was based upon.

I am quite well aware of block-scope: I've worked on a professional C++ compiler, and I HAVE read Javascript: The Good Parts.

The point WAS that Javascript has a retarded design by NOT respecting block-scope like other languages that it was based upon. It is too easy to use variables when you don't mean to.

Javascript is the Basic of the 2000's. It was designed by an idiot that failed to learn from the mistakes of previous languages; it encourages bad programming practices and bites you in the ass when you least expect it, i.e. just use any misspelt variable without declaration unless you resort to stupid hacks like "use strict", etc.

Comprehending. Try it sometime.

> The latter is not a scope issue.

It is a *design* issue.

Other languages _respect_ block scope and would give you an error for trying to access a variable outside the block scope.

Javascript does not. Ergo, it is a retarded design.

Did you even read what Wikipedia has ??

Some programmers refer to a language as "weakly typed" if simple operations do not behave in a way that they would expect. For example, consider the following program:

x = "5" + 6

Different languages will assign a different value to 'x':

One language might convert 6 to a string, and concatenate the two arguments to produce the string "56" (e.g. JavaScript)

A Strong Typed language does NOT automatically allow type conversion / coercion / type punning.