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Programs have inertia roughly proportional to their size. Extending a small program is almost always easier than a large program-- except for the special case
by Scaevolus 15y ago
Programs have inertia roughly proportional to their size.
Extending a small program is almost always easier than a large program-- except for the special case where the large program was designed with the specific extension you're making in mind.
- astrodust 15y agoYou sound like a person who's never had to debug a hairball of a Perl program that looks more line-noise than source code. You can do just as much damage by being too concise as being too verbose.
- mistermann 15y ago> You can do just as much damage by being too concise as being too verbose. Very true in my experience. Why do something in 3 lines of easy to understand code whose intention is obvious, when you can do the same thing with a clever and obscure one-line hack that will impress your colleagues?
- SomeCallMeTim 15y agoFYI, in the comparison above, there were no clever one-line hacks that were completely unreadable. OO code just takes more lines.