>I believe that procedures, methods and functions should be compact. If you end up writing methods of several hundred lines of code, you should seriously wonder if that is correct. I know this behavious is just an inheritance from the JSP times and widely used in clipper and foxbase programs, but this is really a bad habit.
Don't get me wrong, I propagate the writing of subroutines. However, there's no gain in writing a subroutine that's called only once, solely for the purpose of preventing long procedures/functions. I prefer one big 300-lines procedure with 4 40-lines functions over 100 small 10-lines functions. The latter kind of code I call
macaroni code!
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