Campbell Ritchie wrote:Isn't it correct to break up code into small units in any language?
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Isn't it correct to break up code into small units in any language?
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Tim Holloway wrote:
Well, it wasn't common in the older languages, but that's in large part because there weren't very good tools or conventions for doing so back then.
Tim Holloway wrote:
Well, it wasn't common in the older languages, but that's in large part because there weren't very good tools or conventions for doing so back then.
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Tim Holloway wrote:As the loops and conditions multiply, the indentation levels increase. I don't care how wide my monitor screen is, there are limits to what I'll tolerate
Tim Holloway wrote:While I did use punched-cards on the mainframe in school, the worst of it pre-dates me.
Jesse Silverman wrote:I remember the re-type feature where you held down some key to copy the card up to the error was itself error-prone. Hold it down a fraction of a second too long and you just repro'd the erroneous character as well....
My original point stands. It is far easier to do these re-factorings with Language-sensitive contextual support.