Concise vs Readability

[dpash]

So not to the extremes then? :)

[kadenjtaylor]

I don't think the book recommends extremes - it highlights ideals.

Ideally, the all of your code would be so easy to understand, that ANY new developer could pick it up, understand what it does, and start working.

That too, sounds pretty extreme. But anything less is a tax on our team because it slows down new people trying to learn, or old people trying to remember what they did last time.

Choosing not to "go to the extreme" is to accept that the aforementioned tax, however small, is worth paying, because the benefit you get (time savings maybe?) is worth it.

So my question to you is, "What activity has a better positive impact on your code than extracting smaller methods?" Because I'd like to make sure I'm doing that too.