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0 pointsGFK_of_xmaspast11y ago0 comments

I get paid to program c, c++, java, python, and r (not necessarily in that order, with other languages as needed) and there's nothing inherently wrong with a 500 line method if that's what the problem calls for.

It's grounds for getting the stink-eye in code review, but to reject it out of hand is pure ideology.

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V-211y ago

"there's nothing inherently wrong with a 500 line method if that's what the problem calls for"

Yeah, "if", but that's rarely the case :) Care to show me an open-source example of a function 500 lines long where you don't think one could find proper seams to split the code along? Ideally in https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go/blob/master/main.g...

GFK_of_xmaspastOP11y ago

I don't make it a habit of reading through open source code unless I'm trying to fix a bug (or, more often, get it to compile).

to3m11y ago

Better to have 500 lines all in one place, so it's tidy like, than 500 lines spread about everywhere making a mess, that's what I say...

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