alt Hacker NewsAs another commenter said, number of bugs increases with lines of code changed.
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throw-qqqqq • yesterday at 7:52 PM
I completely agree with that
As another commenter said, number of bugs increases with lines of code changed.
I completely agree with that
And some code is absolutely unnecessary. Look at the yes command. GNU version is optimized to death for no reason at all[1].
OpenBSD's version is as simple as it gets[2].
[1]: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c [2]: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c