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Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest useful application?

3 points by rokhayakebe 17y ago

Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest application?

cperciva 17y ago
According to sloccount, bsdiff + bspatch is 425 lines of code. I've written smaller applications, but that's probably my smallest useful application -- at least if you consider being used (albeit unknowingly) by millions of people and being responsible for saving hundreds of man-years of waiting for downloads to complete to qualify as "useful".
aristus 17y ago
iSVN is an interactive shell for SVN. Think CPAN or RPM shell. Normal use is to list all files that are modified, and to pick various ones by number and operate on them (commit, revert, diff, etc). It's 60 lines of Python. Reminds me, have to release it... $ cd ~/svn $ isvn svn> status 1) ? devtools/bin/isvn svn> add 1 A devtools/bin/isvn svn> update Updated to revision 1234. svn> commit 1 -m "new interactive svn tool"
aristus 17y ago
g, an interactive shell for grep and ack that lets you search files and open them to specific lines. 120 lines of Python. $ g --js FooBar 1) static/web/www/foobar.js 4: var FooBar = function( options 9: FooBar.superclass.constructor.call( t, $.extend( { 28: Foo.inherit( FooBAr, somthing.ui.Baz, { 2) static/web/www/js/ui.js 196: FooBar.show( new something.ui.FooBar( { ack> open 1 28 ack> open 2 196
makecheck 17y ago
First ask if LOC is a good measure for programs. :) LOC can be very misleading. A better estimate, to me, would be: how long did it take to write your simplest, useful application?
- rokhayakebe 17y ago
  I am not a programmer. I just started to learn 16 hours ago, but I built 2 simple simple apps (ok not really app) with a few lines(30 and 140), but they are nonetheless useful to me (as a beginner).
MaysonL 17y ago
1 - back in 1964 I wrote a utility for the operations staff at the stock brokerage I was interning at that copied a deck of punched cards which fit on a single card, and I wrote it at the keypunch machine.

3 points by rokhayakebe 17y ago

Ask HN:How many LOC is/was your simplest application?

According to sloccount, bsdiff + bspatch is 425 lines of code. I've written smaller applications, but that's probably my smallest useful application -- at least if you consider being used (albeit unknowingly) by millions of people and being responsible for saving hundreds of man-years of waiting for downloads to complete to qualify as "useful".

aristus 17y ago

iSVN is an interactive shell for SVN. Think CPAN or RPM shell. Normal use is to list all files that are modified, and to pick various ones by number and operate on them (commit, revert, diff, etc). It's 60 lines of Python. Reminds me, have to release it... $ cd ~/svn $ isvn svn> status 1) ? devtools/bin/isvn svn> add 1 A devtools/bin/isvn svn> update Updated to revision 1234. svn> commit 1 -m "new interactive svn tool"

aristus 17y ago

g, an interactive shell for grep and ack that lets you search files and open them to specific lines. 120 lines of Python. $ g --js FooBar 1) static/web/www/foobar.js 4: var FooBar = function( options 9: FooBar.superclass.constructor.call( t, $.extend( { 28: Foo.inherit( FooBAr, somthing.ui.Baz, { 2) static/web/www/js/ui.js 196: FooBar.show( new something.ui.FooBar( { ack> open 1 28 ack> open 2 196

makecheck 17y ago

First ask if LOC is a good measure for programs. :) LOC can be very misleading. A better estimate, to me, would be: how long did it take to write your simplest, useful application?

rokhayakebe 17y ago
I am not a programmer. I just started to learn 16 hours ago, but I built 2 simple simple apps (ok not really app) with a few lines(30 and 140), but they are nonetheless useful to me (as a beginner).

MaysonL 17y ago

1 - back in 1964 I wrote a utility for the operations staff at the stock brokerage I was interning at that copied a deck of punched cards which fit on a single card, and I wrote it at the keypunch machine.