As someone who has had to deal with huge methods in PHP - high-level dynamic languages are not immune from incompetent programmers. "Prefer smaller methods" is

As someone who has had to deal with huge methods in PHP - high-level dynamic languages are not immune from incompetent programmers. "Prefer smaller methods" is usually good advice (or as I prefer to think about it, methods with smaller logic). Especially when you feel tempted to put comments inside your bigger method - it's a sign that it's getting too big.