Stare Angrily at the Function

Posted byB McGrawPosted inArticles
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You had no idea until today but ReIterateThroughDataBaseGreaterThanZero( X,YIn,Params) is your least favorite thing in the whole wide world. You keep staring at the function and its’ contents, and it’s ambiguous comments. What even is X, or Yin?! You don’t have to say ‘In’ at the ‘YIn’ that’s redundant. We get it, it’s an input. You’ve just spent about thirty minutes staring at this function and you honestly feel pretty bad about it.

What do you do?

  1. Stare angrierily at the function
  2. Rewrite the function
  3. Google it
  4. Look at the function calling it
  5. Look at the complicated function being called inside of ReIterateThroughDataBaseGreaterThanZero(X,YIn,Params)

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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