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Developer shrinks 2,600 lines of C++ code to six-line script

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A developer managed to condense a substantial 2,600-line C++ program into a mere six-line script. Despite this impressive feat of code optimization, the developer reportedly lost sleep over the process, not due to the code itself, but because of a colleague's actions involving a pager. AI

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Developer shrinks 2,600 lines of C++ code to six-line script

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  1. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Simon Sharwood ·

    Developer cleverly shrank 2,600 lines of C into a six-line script but still ending up losing sleep

    It wasn't the not-very-legal source code raid that caused it, but a colleague who punted a pager

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