That "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is now a fairly uncontroversial statement, but people don't realize that this insight not only applies to

That "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is now a fairly uncontroversial statement, but people don't realize that this insight not only applies to performance. The OO/functional/whatever-current-fashion movement almost universally starts cargo-culting with the main principles, no longer thinking about why this or that is done. To come back to the point at hand, regularly writing all kinds of code, from embedded to desktop to mobile, I can only nod vigorously at Carmack's observations Always writing minimal functions doesn't work 100% of the time, but is unfortunately often enforced vehemently in large teams, as the ones in charge don't trust the rest to be sensible. There should always be a good reason to follow this or that rule, but when the rules of the team are broken intenionally, it'd better be documented to avoid confusion later on!