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by sevensor 2869 days ago
Holy cow, in Smalltalk? I thought it was considered exceptionally bad form in Smalltalk to write a method that didn't all fit on your screen.
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I've seen entire major subsystems written without a single instance variable and without a single instance method -- in Smalltalk -- in an application responsible for multi billions of dollars in transactions at a Fortune 500 company. The depths of how bad is, in bad corporate code is kind of amazing. Though in fairness, I think those super long methods resulted from auto-generated methods that became cut and paste hand maintained.
Yikes. I've seen that in small scale, with copypasted auto-generated code (although not Smalltalk) reaching 5k lines or so at a manufacturing company. But what you're talking about is a whole other level of bad.