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I find this is one of the things I struggle with the most. I definitely "refactor" code by moving it to a subroutine sometimes purely for readability's sake. I

I find this is one of the things I struggle with the most. I definitely "refactor" code by moving it to a subroutine sometimes purely for readability's sake. I also try not to stress out about how reusable something might be until I actually NEED to reuse it. Otherwise it often seems like "premature optimization" trying to generalize a routine that I'm not even sure will ever get used anywhere else.

buss 15y ago
In my experience, the drive to make things reusable from the start ends up delaying projects to a point where they might just not get done. I also refactor for the sake of readability (and urge my co-workers to do the same). Of course, this might mean I'm a bad programmer and I shouldn't ever get 6 levels deep in logic in the first place...