The modern equivalent is called 'ravioli code' http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RavioliCode
"thousands of little classes everywhere and no one knows how to find the places where things really happen."
"thousands of little classes everywhere and no one knows how to find the places where things really happen."
One of my first tasks was to make a minor change and after an hour or so I still had no idea where the code was that needed changing. I called my manager over and he spent about 40 minutes trying to find it. He did, eventually. The change I made then took about 10 minutes to write and test.
That's 110 minutes of intern time + 40 minutes of manager time for a 10 minute fix.
It's like that, but even smaller pieces. No more than one or two lines of less than 80 characters each (including indentation).