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:
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.
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
...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.