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It speaks to the state of software engineering that people are complaining about file length, instead of something meaningful like cyclomatic complexity. A 10k
by avar 5y ago
It speaks to the state of software engineering that people are complaining about file length, instead of something meaningful like cyclomatic complexity.
A 10k single line program can be easier to understand and better organized than an overly abstracted mess strewn across multiple files, but which checks all the "best practice" checkboxes.
- dj_mc_merlin 5y agoDo you think the people who wrote this were measuring cyclomatic complexity? Obviously you can have >10k LOC file that is well-maintained and useful.. but there's ample evidence in the post that this was _not_ one of those, but a machine held together by duct tape, spit, and hope.
- recursive 5y ago> Do you think the people who wrote this were measuring cyclomatic complexity? As a first-order guess, I would guess that no code has its cyclomatic complexity measured. As a fraction, I'm probably not too far off.