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> This is one of those "software engineering best practices" that sounds nice but has no basis in reality Are you a programmer? What languages? > Where your code is located on the filesystem is incidental complexity. Incidental complexity is still complexity to deal with. It isn't easy for me as a developer to find such and such routine if you've thrown everything into a big bucket named "main". You also omitted the…
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.
Re: Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go
#81Better 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...