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> 500 lines is about how you can read and comprehend a program. (With the exception of languages that are idiomatically horizontal, such as Forth or APL, where
by mananaysiempre 3y ago
> 500 lines is about how you can read and comprehend a program.
(With the exception of languages that are idiomatically horizontal, such as Forth or APL, where a 500-line program sounds about as reassuring as a 500-line mathematics paper, and is probably about as dense. But none of the programs in that book use one of those.)