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As I write more and more code, the more I want simplicity I had a 24 year old developer report to me that apparently thought his bonuses were tied to how many

by 300bps 12y ago

As I write more and more code, the more I want simplicity I had a 24 year old developer report to me that apparently thought his bonuses were tied to how many operations he did on a single line of code. He consistently wrote unbelievably complex lambda expressions with multiple conditional operators that would make a single line take up at least 1.5 screenfulls in Visual Studio on a 1920x1080 resolution monitor. These lines were impossible to debug and had to be inevitably broken up. For a while I thought he was following the conventions laid forth in: https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html ...but he really seemed to be genuinely thinking he was accomplishing something good by doing this. I'm with you though. I'll take simplicity.

custardcream 12y ago
Well it depends how you do it. There's certainly some mileage in doing it like that properly: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq-to-objects-to-extremes-a-fully-linqified-raytracer.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq...
V-2 12y ago
Over the board or just expressive? http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/261893 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/261893
gavinpc 12y ago
Ha! "Exploit Compiler Name Length Limits" I worked for many years on a FoxPro application with a 10-character limit. The first version of the program was written under a two character limit. This never bothered my boss, who was a terrible typist and always used short names anyway. But I at some point took up the practice of descriptive names, on top of the Hungarian notation we'd adopted for sanity. So I was exceeding the limit all over the place. Ten years later, guess who had to convert the program to VFP, which has no variable name limit. And no compile-time checks on variables, even when they are declared. Glad that year's over.

by 300bps 12y ago

custardcream 12y ago

Well it depends how you do it. There's certainly some mileage in doing it like that properly: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq-to-objects-to-extremes-a-fully-linqified-raytracer.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq...

V-2 12y ago

Over the board or just expressive? http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/261893 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/261893

gavinpc 12y ago

Ha! "Exploit Compiler Name Length Limits" I worked for many years on a FoxPro application with a 10-character limit. The first version of the program was written under a two character limit. This never bothered my boss, who was a terrible typist and always used short names anyway. But I at some point took up the practice of descriptive names, on top of the Hungarian notation we'd adopted for sanity. So I was exceeding the limit all over the place. Ten years later, guess who had to convert the program to VFP, which has no variable name limit. And no compile-time checks on variables, even when they are declared. Glad that year's over.