On 05/10/2018 8:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
I was in college during the height of the Java craze, so my instructors highly recommended the deep nesting approach. This was because return statements are control-flow, and control-flow isn't very object-orientedy, and is old-fasioned and in the same category as the dreaded goto and was therefore bad. So I switched to the nesting-instead-of-returning style because it was "The Right Way".
"Terminology invoking "objects" and "oriented" in the modern sense of object-oriented programming made its first appearance at MIT in the late 1950s and early 1960s."[0].
And this is why you have to be very careful with any sort of trend in programming. Because it was already done before you were born (assuming you began learning after 1990) ;)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#History
