"Small" obviously depends on your language, but well-named methods which follow the "do one thing and do it well" principle always win over wall-of-text code. I

"Small" obviously depends on your language, but well-named methods which follow the "do one thing and do it well" principle always win over wall-of-text code. It's all a matter of decomposing the issue, finding the level of abstraction your method will work at, and naming things.