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Uncle Bob becoming even worse: (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

People don't like tracing what something is doing across seven 12-line functions spread through multiple files?

Fry shocked gif

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

He'd probably say that 12 lines is waaaay too much!

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[–] vanillama@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, he'd break it into 12 methods that call each other one after the other instead

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What suggestion of his is related to that, just out of sheer curiosity?

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[–] cbazero@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

He says a function should never be longer than 4 lines (in his Clean Code book).

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 point 3 months ago

that's kinda silly!!

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