From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T10:07:39+09:00
Subject: Re: When clever is stupid

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:01:55AM +0900, Daniel Waite wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > With the usual messy codebase to maintain, I thought I was the only one
> > left whose method / function / whatever extraction finger gets itchy
> > around any and all control structures with more than one statement in
> > them...
> 
> I take my hat off to you good sir. Would you please kindly illustrate 
> this to my co-worker? (I've tried, but if it isn't at least three levels 
> deep it "isn't cool!")

I think that's one of the reasons that long-time C, Java, and Fortran
programmers (among others) tend to view languages like Perl and Ruby as
"only a scripting language": the code doesn't look complex enough to be
considered "real programming".  The fact you can do the same things with
less code complexity (much of the time) is the salient factor that gets
overlooked.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary
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