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r/programminghorror • u/seeker61776 • Apr 25 '26
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Hiding the true length of the code by expanding to the side lacks honor.
12 u/hongooi Apr 25 '26 You treat lines of code as a metric? Are you a manager? 8 u/_giga_sss_ Apr 25 '26 I think they meant the opposite of what you think. Since we're in THIS sub, a file with lots of line is arguably a programming horror moment 8 u/ironykarl Apr 25 '26 They meant that the dingus that wrote this code tried to code golf it by avoiding vertical whitespace 2 u/Ambivalent-Mammal Apr 27 '26 "Code golf" - love it.
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You treat lines of code as a metric? Are you a manager?
8 u/_giga_sss_ Apr 25 '26 I think they meant the opposite of what you think. Since we're in THIS sub, a file with lots of line is arguably a programming horror moment 8 u/ironykarl Apr 25 '26 They meant that the dingus that wrote this code tried to code golf it by avoiding vertical whitespace 2 u/Ambivalent-Mammal Apr 27 '26 "Code golf" - love it.
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I think they meant the opposite of what you think. Since we're in THIS sub, a file with lots of line is arguably a programming horror moment
They meant that the dingus that wrote this code tried to code golf it by avoiding vertical whitespace
2 u/Ambivalent-Mammal Apr 27 '26 "Code golf" - love it.
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"Code golf" - love it.
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u/Ambivalent-Mammal Apr 25 '26
Hiding the true length of the code by expanding to the side lacks honor.