“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” — Linus Torvalds
That's how I always feel when people have lengthy discussions about spaces vs tabs. Good truth coming from the man himself.
“Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership.”
Kinda scary true, when you see how some online communities, that started mostly as trolling, became real idiologys over time.
> In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.
> 0. Semantics
> 1. Syntax
> 2. Lexical syntax
> 3. Lexical syntax of comments
I have a project full of essentially 'if (true) return true; else return false;'. Sometimes heavily nested. It's just not necessary.
Guard-style returns go a long way but a long column of those may mask deeper problems of structure. I don't mean inheritance-polymorphism no-ifs but rather your code isn't dumb enough and perhaps your data isn't smart enough.