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I wish there was someone around who has had a chance to look at some of his code. Something I've noticed from years of doing code reviews and consulting is that
by icey 18y ago
I wish there was someone around who has had a chance to look at some of his code. Something I've noticed from years of doing code reviews and consulting is that people who are that verbose in their writing tend to be very verbose in their coding. I wonder if Steve generates massive classes when they could be done much smaller.
Again, it's totally unfounded, I'm just speaking from anecdotal evidence.
- jauco 18y agoHe's transcribing a speach. Speakings always more verbose than writing.
- icey 18y agoSure, but everything he writes is incredibly lengthy.
- msg 18y agoHe has actually talked about your question. Over the years he has come to believe that size is the enemy of code and verbosity is the portrait of n00b. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm... http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht... Also, it's not exactly like he's verbose in his writing. He was verbose in his talking, which makes sense if you think about his forum.