I agree. I am most annoyed by the use of maxims with something so subjective and context-sensitive as code. I've read and written code with 4 (and maybe even mo

I agree. I am most annoyed by the use of maxims with something so subjective and context-sensitive as code. I've read and written code with 4 (and maybe even more) levels of indentation that made complete sense and code with 2 levels that should probably be refactored into only having one. I've seen people propose things as dubious as a character limit per function body. Most programming languages are so flexible that no matter what guidelines you set for your project, there will still be very bad code that conforms to all of them. Forcing function splitting by rules is a good example of this. Very large functions are probably doing too much, but where and how you split them matters incomparably more than if you split them at all.