ILX stack overflow

seeing the word "salesforce" has honestly brought up some awful memories for me, and i say that as someone who had to use it, not anyone who understands the evil that lurks inside of it. with all due respect i will permanently bow out of this thread. i like to follow along and learn something but i don't know want to learn things like this anymore

my god have mercy on all of our souls

This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
– Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
And Christe receive thy saule.

I've got a (new) name for an old anti-pattern for you: Exponential Edge Case Explosion.

Unless there was no old name.

nothin like a good edge case baby

Nothing like cutting and pasting and crazy looping to cover all your real and imagined edge cases and obscuring any attempt at logical organization that someone else might have tried.

Refactoring: why is it so bad and hated?

its funny cause its actually the best but no one has time 4 that

Yes. I was making a joke because it is a very good practice and I do it all the time, but then I have to look through my eclipse glasses at some other people’s stuff.

i kind of enjoyed this deranged and extremely mechanistic approach to refactoring https://www.manning.com/books/five-lines-of-code

Forward by Robert C. Martin!

yes but it's good

Lol!

Just looked at the beginning. Seems promising, thanks.

i want to emphasize that it is deranged and mechanistic

How does it compare to Martin Fowler?

it makes mutliple references to _Refactoring_, but i haven't read that so all i can say is 5LOC if shorter and uses typescript.