I don't necessarily disagree with the post, but I will say that in almost 30 years of programming, I can only recall one programmer who took small functions to

I don't necessarily disagree with the post, but I will say that in almost 30 years of programming, I can only recall one programmer who took small functions to a harmful extreme. On the other hand, I can recall dozens who took long functions to a harmful extreme. So yeah, it can be bad, but I see the other extreme way more. (That may be because I don't do enterprise programming, though.)