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• The Functional Approach (Score:2, Funny)

  by chromatic (983)

  You could always make the arguments of a smug Lisp weenie:

  • everyone knows that only heretics use insert some common construct here!
  • you don't really need to do that
  • anyone who can't understand that code isn't worthy of programming computers

  As for me, a smug Perl weenie, I think you may go better pulling out a couple of subroutines. I don't write a lot of loops anymore.
  • Re:The Functional Approach (Score:3, Funny)

    by Dom2 (2981)

    So the Smug XP Weenie says "Extract Method!" instead? ;-)

    -Dom
    • Re:The Functional Approach (Score:2, Funny)

      by chromatic (983) on 2003.08.02 16:47 (#22707) Homepage Journal

      I could have sworn I put on my "maintainable code" hat this morning. Oh well!

      If your Ward Cunningham number is appropriately low, you'll know a Confident XP Weenie would say, "What would happen if you extracted a couple of those transformations into their own methods?" Unlike smug weenies, confident weenies are subtle.

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      • Re:The Functional Approach (Score:2, Funny)

        by pdcawley (485)

        Guess who is kicking himself for missing the chance to get his Ward number down to 1 at OSCON this year? Ward even asked me to show him something in the Squeak image and I said "Um... bit busy, can I catch up with you later" and I never did.