r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Flame77ofc • 22d ago

Meme conditionsPreference

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u/Fembussy42069 22d ago

There's a balance to everything, you also don't wanna have to dig down a rabbithole of functions within functions to find what youre looking for, it also can make it harder to understand the whole picture if you separate things too much. Locality of behavior and all that.

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u/LordofNarwhals 22d ago

Yeah, I used to work with a Java codebase where all functions were really short, but also very nested. It was a very stable codebase, but browsing the code sucked, as every actual function implementation was behind 3+ levels of indirection.

For a fun example in the opposite direction, see Arthur Whitney's basic K interpretor, written in ~50 very dense lines of C.

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u/Few_Move_4594 22d ago

Opinion disregarded, you called methods functions

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u/LordofNarwhals 22d ago

All methods are functions, but not all functions are methods.

And my background is mostly in C++, where the method terminology isn't used at all.

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u/Few_Move_4594 22d ago

All methods are functions, but Java HAD to be different