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there are many such headlines on HN. "XXX in Y lines of code". I can't see in what respect the number of lines of code matters. Regardless of what the scriptin
by yodsanklai 12y ago
there are many such headlines on HN. "XXX in Y lines of code". I can't see in what respect the number of lines of code matters. Regardless of what the scripting language actually does, I'd rather have more lines of readable and maintainable code, than less lines of obfuscated code.
- kbenson 12y agoI think it's an important signifier for how easily you could read, and hopefully grok, the entire codebase. At 7k lines, I, who have no experience writing a scripting language, might be enticed to take a look. At 100k lines, I'm not sure where to start, and thus likely won't.