[kreeben]

>> things grouped nicely together

fixed it for ya :)

I'm a maintenance programmer. Even working layers of layers of layers above the actual shit does not make it not stink.

>> jumping around

...should be intuitive and joyful, not a disaster to your brain.

EDIT: I am a fan, though, of SOC. I guess enterprisey code tries to be that (but fails hard at it).

[alphanumeric0]

Okay, great. You are a maintenance programmer. You have a 1000-line program all in one file. You need to update the e-mail functionality of this program. You aren't following a stack trace or following a particular code path. There are 15 or 16 different e-mail related functions. How do you find the e-mail function you need to update? Do you memorize line numbers? Use regex search? Do you have vim marks setup?

[kreeben]

>> here are 15 or 16 different e-mail related functions

Is this you showboating the greats of layered code?

Depth is not width and width is not depth, but surely you see the difference in the two?

[jyounker]

If you have 15 or 15 different e-mail related functions spread across a whole bunch of files, how do you find the one you need to update?