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		papercrane on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K... Whitney is famous for writing code like this, it's been his coding style for decades. For example, he wrote an early J interpreter this way in 1989. There's also a buddy allocator he wrote at Morgan Stanley that's only about 10 lines of C code. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum https://github.com/tavmem/buddy/blob/master/a/b.c

BeefWellington on June 1, 2024 [–]

When writing code in this manner, lines of code is kind of a meaningless metric. You could put the entire Linux kernel in one very long line of C.

papercrane on June 1, 2024 | [–]

It was meant just as an indicator of the code density. The actual line lengths are ~80 chars.

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