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Comment by jackblemming

2 years ago

Until it’s not. Nobody wants to read your 100,000 line file called main that only has one function. As with everything, moderation.

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lcuff  2 years ago

LOL. Yup. And I've been in a company that had a product like that. One man, one file, one function. Scads of GOTOs. It was a state machine, managing ports on a terminal-to-ethernet box circa 1987. Oh my.

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