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Size correlates with bugs.

It also correlates with functionality.

I've used grep and ps a few times this month. Other than that, I'd be surprised if anything I've used recently is less than 100k lines, except for devices with embedded firmware.

I'd rather have buggy code than code that doesn't do anything and is more work than just doing the task manually without code.



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