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Uncle Bob becoming even worse: (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

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

Fry shocked gif

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 10 points 18 hours ago

The code had the single responsibility to waste your time

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] cbazero@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

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