Being a nerd made me a sucker for neatness

Refactoring. Whats that? Its a computer term for tidying up code, improving efficiency, renaming user-friendly names, etc. Today, when I saw some code that was like this, I was flabbergasted and fricking tempted to refactor and clean it all up. And I did.

Original:

void SortByColumnA()
{
    (blah)
    (blah)
    (blah)
    MergeSort( start, end, originalArray, finalArray, SortTypeColumnA);
    (blah)
}

void SortByColumnB()

{

    (blah)

    (blah)

    (blah)

    MergeSort( start, end, originalArray, finalArray, SortTypeColumnB);

    (blah)

}

void SortByColumnC()

{

    (blah)

    (blah)

    (blah)

    MergeSort( start, end, originalArray, finalArray, SortTypeColumnC);

    (blah)

}

...(D, E)...

void SortByColumnF()

{

    (blah)

    (blah)

    (blah)

    MergeSort( start, end, originalArray, finalArray, SortTypeColumnF);

    (blah)

}

And so I took all the five... (or was it six) functions, kept one, deleted the rest, and tidied them up. Viola! Pleasant for the eyes. No more feeling like taking out a chopper to find the culprit who did this. Magnificent. Kon-kon.

After:

void SortColumn(SortTypeColumn sortTypeColumn)

{

    (blah)

    (blah)

    (blah)

    MergeSort( start, end, originalArray, finalArray, sortTypeColumn);

    (blah)

}

And I never thought i would write a techy-blog post like this.
Just needed to get it out of my system. I really wanted to tear out my hair when I saw functions A, B, C, D, E, F, with 98% similarity, and only a different variable/function name. Obviously the result of a quick copy-and-paste, modify name, submit and check-in operation. RRRRGGGH.