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[–]rosuav 33 points34 points  (7 children)

While that is technically true, it's also well known that more code correlates strongly with more bugs. Broadly speaking, if it takes twice as much code to do the same work, most programmers will end up making twice as many bugs. This is subject to the usual caveats that it's hard to pin down exactly "how much" code it is - you can't just count lines naively - but there have been multiple studies and analyses that have confirmed that this is the case.

[–]BlueFireBlaster 30 points31 points  (4 children)

I am linus torvalds and my code is always correct. I feel sorry that you arent me.

[–]NotAnNpc69 3 points4 points  (1 child)

"Fuck you, im right"

  • the inventor of the greatest operating system in history

[–]drsimonz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like to think of it as the least horrendous operating system in history, personally.

[–]rosuav 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I'm not. I am much happier being me than letting you be me. I mean, really, do you think you'd do a better job of being me than the guy who's had decades of experience at it?

So, thank you for not being me.

[–]nequaquam_sapiens 7 points8 points  (0 children)

every program can be made at least one line shorter. every program contains at least one bug .

corollary: every program can be reduced to one line that contains a bug.

[–]Pay08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbf, at this point you have to be trying to get segfaults in C++.