Hacker News: szx0https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=szx0Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:07:34 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by szx0 in "A Tale of Two Programmers"]]>What if your 1950 was less expressive and more cryptic to understand, and the 8800 was very verbose and easy for a newbie to pick up?

So you can't measure less LOC means it's better, it really depends on the quality of the code from a maintainability standpoint not just the size of code.

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