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Re:Confessions of a terrible programmer by jibiki on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:34PM (#517146)
Somebody posted a study which showed, IIRC, that ~150 lines was the optimum length for subroutines. I really should bookmark these things...

EDIT: Hooray for searchyc:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509978

Re:Confessions of a terrible programmer by scott_s on Sunday March 15, 2009 @04:41PM (#517225)
If you upmodded it, it's bookmarked under the "saved" section of your profile.