I have discovered that my project’s codebase is like a sweater knitted from one continuous piece of thread.
June 14th, 2002
I have discovered that my project’s codebase is like a sweater knitted
from one continuous piece of thread. Except instead of “thread” think
“gobs and gobs of 500-line functions, taking no arguments and returning
none, modifying global variables.”
In order to clean up some of the functionality, I grabbed a thread and
started pulling … and pulling … and pulling …