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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·6 months agoMy 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.
minus-squarenoerdman@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·6 months agoIt saves space! Hard drives are expensive. Each whitespace is like… a whole byte! On Windows, a new line is two bytes!!
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-26 months agoThis 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
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.
The magic of the semi-colon
“Job security!”
It saves space! Hard drives are expensive. Each whitespace is like… a whole byte! On Windows, a new line is two bytes!!
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