Of course that was an exaggeration, a tool to simply drive the point home. It would be impossible to actually do what I suggested. The point, which for some r

Of course that was an exaggeration, a tool to simply drive the point home. It would be impossible to actually do what I suggested. The point, which for some reason you are not willing to concede, is that if you are going to claim that you solved a problem with x lines of programming language z the line count needs to be real. You can't use something like a library with 10,000 lines of C++ code to then claim that you solved a problem with two lines of Python (or whatever): import huge_code_base print huge_code_base.solve() It really is that simple. If you don't see it this way, well, that's fine. Let's leave it be.