Re: [9fans] a quick and simple minded study of configure.

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

Heh. Reminds me of when I wrote an assembler as an undergrad in
college in C++ in 1200 lines. I was pretty impressed with myself at
the time till I saw my professor's 600 line version.

I think that's what got me into learning these higher level languages
and higher order functional programming languages - the desire to
write less code.

I'm pretty sure I'm not good at it yet but I always found this one
line. "word counter" impressive.

 std::distance(std::istream_iterator<std::string>(std::cin),
std::istream_iterator<std::string>());

I think that's corect but I'm on my blackberry.

I think I got that from a newsgroup back in the 90s



On 6/15/07, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> When porting the Plan 9 kernel to Sun, I struggled a bit with the MMU.
> Someone offered to send me the code for Spring (I think) to help me
> understand it.  The relevant code was far bigger than the entire Plan
> 9 kernel code I was porting.  It didn't help at all.
>
> Dave Cheriton gave a talk, I think at the first OSDI, where he spoke
> about a system he'd written. He said it was small, only 100K lines.
> I said I considered that large; our kernel at the time was about 25K
> lines and was far more complete than his research toy. "Yeah," he
> said, "but those are Bell Labs lines."  I took that as a compliment,
> but he might not have meant it that way.
>
> -rob
>


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