500 Lines or Less

Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11796253" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11796253</a>

I&#x27;m liking this trend. Basic ideas of full blown pieces of software often take surprisingly few LOC to implement. Anyone willing to guess how long the first release of git was?. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;git&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...</a>

Shouldn&#x27;t it be &quot;500 Lines or Fewer&quot;?

The crawler looked so pretty that I&#x27;m hacking away on a real crawler based on coroutines: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cocrawler&#x2F;cocrawler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cocrawler&#x2F;cocrawler</a>

Such a short life and so much awesome to learn. Very promising book.

The source for the book is available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aosabook&#x2F;500lines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aosabook&#x2F;500lines</a>