Carmacknstein

I guess you're the ones who could answer this the best, what particular proficiency in programing has made Carmack so popular in the videogame industry?

Refrain from bland answers such as "He coded doom and doom is good" if possible.

>>7
No, do your research before spouting nonsense.
OpenGL was originally a more portable specification of IrixGL, then it was taken on by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. Altough id Software is a member of the ARB, most of the OpenGL specification effort has come from SGI, 3Dlabs and GPU vendors.