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> Sure it's 77% smaller, it's also 77% worse.

Hehe, yeah, imagine saying you made a new programming language with 77% less lines of code than Python.

Finally, an opportunity to share this https://nsl.com/papers/denial.html

I’m curious about the downvotes because I thought I was just agreeing with OP. Obviously lines of code in a programming language repo is no correlate at all to quality. It’s like the old adage about measuring aircraft quality by weight.

That’s an inverse correlate, not no correlate

No, a PL could have millions of lines of code and still not be very good. Consider any enterprise language that no one likes :)

I didn't get the punchline of this, so I asked GPT-4 to explain the punchline. Actually quite amusing.

From the context it presumably finds the maximum of an array in K. Also quite a nice demonstration of why K is a bad language. For writing maintainable software at least; for code golf it's clearly amazing! (And maybe interactive calculator style usage?)

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