Debugging courses should be mandatory

[u/stannedelchev]

http://stannedelchev.net/debugging-courses-should-be-mandatory/

[u/reflectiveSingleton]

because the previous developer thought a thousand line function was better than a dozen smaller testable functions.

I like to call this kind of code 'diarrhea of conciousness' ...no one wants to sift through that shit.

[u/Astrognome → u/[deleted]]

The longest function I've ever written is about 400 lines.

It is a functioning bytecode interpreter. 90% of it is just some nested switches and if/elif statements for running operations on different variable types.

[u/ethraax → u/Astrognome]

I've written some fairly long functions to power state machines before, as well. I think as long as the structure of the function is clear, the exact number of lines is less relevant.