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I don't agree with this statement at all. From my experience this is perfectly possible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the statement... why would it be hard to write methods that only do one thing?
Don't follow the concrete practices in the best-selling book* vetted by industry leaders for years, instead follow this set of 5 high level goals that I've generally described and grouped together into a catchy acronym. Yay me! * - Granted the book was written by an asshole.
Could you elaborate on the last point?
It is laughable talk about "Don't Repeat Yourself principle" on a strongly biased towards Golang article. A language that took 13 years to add a simple method (Index) that helped the programmer to find an element in an array (slice). Before that you had to write a for loop every time you wanted something from an array. Talk about "DRY" ... That is everything but "simple" as described in the article.
An amusing aspect of DRY is that the moment you think "great, with that last patch I'm no longer repeating myself," you now have an opportunity to look around and really just take in how much repetition happens everywhere, at multiple levels. You are still repeating yourself, and will likely continue to repeat yourself, forever. (Phew, look at that word "everywhere", it should just be "vrywh")
"The problem, of course, is that few of us can agree on what "clean code" means, and how to get there. A rule like "methods should only do one thing" looks great on a T-shirt, but it's not so easy to apply in practice. What counts as "one thing"? I don't agree with this statement at all. From my experience this is perfectly possible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the statement... why would it be hard to write methods th…
If you don’t understand that, I can understand how the rule could seem confusing
"The problem, of course, is that few of us can agree on what "clean code" means, and how to get there. A rule like "methods should only do one thing" looks great on a T-shirt, but it's not so easy to apply in practice. What counts as "one thing"? I don't agree with this statement at all. From my experience this is perfectly possible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the statement... why would it be hard to write methods th…
But as I commented elsewhere, there's not a lot of attention to topical scope in the article either, so it also sets out to do the metaphorical "one thing", and then somehow merges with the broader philosophical world...
"The problem, of course, is that few of us can agree on what "clean code" means, and how to get there. A rule like "methods should only do one thing" looks great on a T-shirt, but it's not so easy to apply in practice. What counts as "one thing"? I don't agree with this statement at all. From my experience this is perfectly possible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the statement... why would it be hard to write methods th…
Even porn sites need to write great code to handle huge traffic. I am offended by this
Don't follow the concrete practices in the best-selling book* vetted by industry leaders for years, instead follow this set of 5 high level goals that I've generally described and grouped together into a catchy acronym. Yay me! * - Granted the book was written by an asshole.