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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

A guy, who made programming worse, especially in enterprise settings.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

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[-] Feyd@programming.dev 11 points 5 days ago

The code had the single responsibility to waste your time

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago

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

[-] vanillama@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

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

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago

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

[-] cbazero@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

that's kinda silly!!

[-] siftmama@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Depends on which parts you look at. There is plenty that he wrote about that have made coding enjoyable, but yes, also plenty that is the opposite.

I never saw his book as a bible though. I always thought of it as a "here are possibly good ideas, see which you and your team likes".

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