The greatest thing about this book is that it develops an antidote to the work of the gang of three (Martin, Fowler, Beck), which would have everybody write onl

The greatest thing about this book is that it develops an antidote to the work of the gang of three (Martin, Fowler, Beck), which would have everybody write only 3 line functions TDD style if they could. This can be seen for example in the intro chapter to Fowler's 2nd edition of Refactoring, where he pulverizes some code into submission.