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The contributors section names four people. If only four people wrote something like this, that's ridiculously impressive.


It's only about 2000 lines of code. More like, "that it took four people to write this leaves an impression". ;-)

(In all seriousness, no dig on the authors, planning on poking through some of the source in the next bit.)


size of source code is not a good measurement of size of achievement


I'm just going to post a link to my response to that comment the last time it came up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1155026

"Lines of doesn't say anything" is one of those flawed mantras that people keep repeating as an overreaction to the too often used assumption that it's the most important metric.


Not sure if I get your point here. My response to a flawed statement is flawed?




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