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thiefmaster
15y ago
Just FWIW, This is still mostly HTML: (trtd ,@body) (trtd (vspace 10) (color-stripe (main-color ,gu)) (br) (center (hook 'longfoot)
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thiefmaster
15y ago
> It certainly qualifies as "software." What possible definition of "software" would exclude a web application? My point was that it doesn't do heavy algorithm lifting, processing etc. It's not a phong shading ray tracer or anything. It
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thiefmaster
15y ago
Lines of code is probably the wrong term for me to use. Since it's bogus. (Depends on how much the language provides, libraries, etc and doesn't necessarily capture program complexity). A more accurate term would be "Required programming ef
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thiefmaster
15y ago
Surely most of the software running this site is simply HTML with some basic data movement and storage going on in the backend. I'm not sure this really even qualifies as 'software' ;) It could have been written in php/asp/python/perl etc a