>0 ecjonas @ 2026/04/10 13:51
Mine is about 1000 lines in Python
>1 cartwright @ 2026/04/10 13:54
8500+ lines of x86 assembly.
>2 ecjonas @ 2026/04/10 16:09
>>1 wow
>3 danielaw @ 2026/04/24 20:44
>>1 That sounds physically painful, to be honest.
>4 danielaw @ 2026/04/24 20:46
>>OP I don't remember the exact program, but I have hit a few hundred lines of code before. I love coding, but I absolutely hate having to put in a lot of work for one program.
>5 Albatross @ 2026/04/27 19:17
>>4 Define "long"? Define "program"? I wrote an enormous Excel spreadsheet that aligned NIST HIPAA policies with organizational controls and in turn indicated gaps where our policies didn't meet HIPAA. It had hundreds or thousands of cells that could call any of a number of custom functions. When complete it took half an hour to load. I wrote LOTS of programs when I was a C-language programmer in the 1980s and 1990s. But my emphasis was on efficiency and elegance, so even my largest programs were main() and a bunch of functions, often recursive functions. Not terribly lengthy in terms of raw text. OTOH I was (too) often forced to debug the code of other programmers, and their code was frequently garbage - big chunks of code where they had identified similar functionality but instead of creating a function they just duplicated the text, altered a couple of lines, and kept going. That program was "longer" but was also garbage. (I once reduced 800 lines of such code to two three-line functions and function call. And I did this specifically because I was told NOT to because they were afraid to touch the garbage code and break something.) I prefer "what was the BEST code you ever wrote?" There's nothing nicer than a short piece of elegant code that does exactly what needs doing...