A Philosophy of Software Design

[Walter Bright]

On 5/25/2026 8:02 AM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> The limit of 60 lines is for the LLM. It hadn't even entered my mind, but was 
> proposed by Gemini. It allows a proper balance between being long enough to 
> incorporate the needed functionality while keeping the necessary context low 
> enough that the output is highly likely to be correct.

This is conventional wisdom, but the book argues against it, based in the idea 
that two functions that are strongly connected are not really an improvement.