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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My dad could do more with one line of c, than most coders could do in their entire career.

mostly because his formatting sucked balls and he kind of just left everything on the first line.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

“Job security!”

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It saves space! Hard drives are expensive. Each whitespace is like... a whole byte! On Windows, a new line is two bytes!!

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This reminds me of the guy who submitted a PR to the GitHub mirror of the kernel "minifying" the code for greater efficiency.

Edit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/437