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502 points xeonmc | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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Scuds ◴[25 Jun 25 21:04 UTC] No.44381825[source]▶
This being Lisa that's -2000 lines in 68k assembler. That's about as verbose as any real PL can ever get.

For what it's worth, here's quicksort in 5 lines of haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7717691/why-is-the-minim...

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1. qsort ◴[25 Jun 25 21:42 UTC] No.44382075[source]▶
Not true quicksort though :)

That's the problem with comparing lines of code: you're comparing apples and oranges. In this case you aren't even solving the same problem.