The 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 modern C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

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