> If you're about to take a hundred lines to write what you could in ten, stop and ask yourself this: what the fuck?
TDD advocacy is my pet hate for this today. I read an article the other day that managed to turn Hello, world into about half a dozen source files and dozens of lines of code, all pulled together with a makefile several times longer than the whole effort should have been, and seemed to be claiming some sort of profound revelation from doing this!
The quote is also a succint analysis of why C++ and Java are becoming less useful every year, relative to the field of programming languages as a whole.
And of course, as in the example in the article, it's good for bashing people who think tools like design patterns must be used everywhere, regardless of whether they actually help to keep a design clean and maintainable.