Comments on: if… http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/ development, by example Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:40:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Conditionals on the edge « silk and spinach http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/#comment-16483 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:33:15 +0000 http://silkandspinach.wordpress.com/2004/07/16/if/#comment-16483 [...] you know, I have a thing about conditional code. Most conditionals are duplicates, and the only “genuine” conditionals are at the system boundaries, where they test [...]

]]> By: If… « silk and spinach http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/#comment-16163 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:01:58 +0000 http://silkandspinach.wordpress.com/2004/07/16/if/#comment-16163 [...] is from a blog post I wrote almost seven years ago, called if…. At the time, and in the context of the projects I was working on then, it contains some radical [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/#comment-15218 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:39:05 +0000 http://silkandspinach.wordpress.com/2004/07/16/if/#comment-15218 Thanks for the reminder. Checked my projects code base and instantly found some of this slipped into it, now tagged for refactoring.

]]> By: the anti-if campaign « silk and spinach http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/#comment-15210 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:41:55 +0000 http://silkandspinach.wordpress.com/2004/07/16/if/#comment-15210 [...] if… [...]

]]> By: Maruis Marais http://silkandspinach.net/2004/07/16/if/#comment-120 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:51:23 +0000 http://silkandspinach.wordpress.com/2004/07/16/if/#comment-120 Good point. Let us stamp out procedural programming wrapped in OO classes for good.

Quite interesting, today a junior developer asked me the following question:

“When is a class to big?”

My answer:

“When the class is doing too much.”

Then I started to explain the concept of Cohesion and Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) to the developer.

It is just mind boggling how little developers, even senior developers in today’s workforce know about Object-Orientation.

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