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>I can go through a 5K SLOC program and understand it relatively quickly you already said in your first post that you can't understand it.
by Avshalom 2y ago
>I can go through a 5K SLOC program and understand it relatively quickly
you already said in your first post that you can't understand it.
- imiric 2y agoI said I don't understand it, not that I couldn't. I don't because I haven't needed to. Understanding just a few hundred lines has been enough for my needs.
- J_McQuade 2y ago> I said I don't understand it, not that I couldn't. When your main goal to just get on with solving your actual problems, these are the same thing.
- eadmund 2y agoBut he can, and pretty quickly. That’s unlike most programs, which are more or less unintelligible to those not working on them.
- imiric 2y agoRight, but "pretty quickly" is relative :D I'm not a C programmer, so it would probably personally take me days, maybe weeks to fully grok 5K SLOC of C. Still, it is potentially possible if I made the effort, unlike with other programs, like you say. It's a testament to the quality of the original C code that I was able to configure and use st and other suckless tools with my limited experience. An experienced C developer would probably find it a breeze.