I cannot stand programs that are excessively split up and have too many files. There is nothing worse, especially combined with tiny functions.
Not to mention the performance impact caused depending on the language. At this point I do not even care if it's true or not that the impact isnt negligible, if you are submitting something like that for me to review I'm probably going to demand you inline (not with the keyword, with copy paste) the majority of your functions and merge the files.
I think they are teaching this tiny function and tiny file method of programming in schools now or something. I get tons of submissions where there isn't a single function longer than 4 or 5 lines. I'm going to blame it on Java and OOP because thats when I started seeing it, probably due to people writing classes like that with trivial getters and setters rather than public fields.
When I was working in Ruby, I think the default function length was 5 lines. I used to be on board with this until I helped write a whole system adhering to this.
Small functions aren't bad per se, especially if they are re-used a lot, but I no longer believe that they are inherently good. Especially awful are having a lot of tiny single-use private functions.
I think that developers often want an easy way to say "we must do this" and have a tool tell them to do so. Tools can get us pretty far but at some point writing good code is going to come down to taste. This is of course very hard in many large project situations where its every team for themselves, and often every developer for themselves within a team.
Not to mention the performance impact caused depending on the language. At this point I do not even care if it's true or not that the impact isnt negligible, if you are submitting something like that for me to review I'm probably going to demand you inline (not with the keyword, with copy paste) the majority of your functions and merge the files.
I think they are teaching this tiny function and tiny file method of programming in schools now or something. I get tons of submissions where there isn't a single function longer than 4 or 5 lines. I'm going to blame it on Java and OOP because thats when I started seeing it, probably due to people writing classes like that with trivial getters and setters rather than public fields.