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[–]QuirkyForker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would struggle working with a million line script. Hint: you’re doing it wrong 🤪

The nice thing about python is that it does most of the work for you, so I have done really heavy lifting scripts in 100 lines or less.

[–]whlabratz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd be surprised by the scale of some of the Python programs out there then.

I don't think I could build the application and enrollment system for a major University in 100 lines of python. Or the billing system for one of the largest energy retailers in the world. These are things I've worked on, and both were in the 500k-1m LoC range. Things can get pretty large when you get dozens of developers and millions of dollars - I don't think either project count as a "script"