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 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.