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		mehdix on March 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: -2000 Lines of Code (2007) I was giving myself RSI by deleting <12000 lines of copied comments (only misleading noise, explaining what was happening) and <4000 LOC (replaced with a 120 LOC in a single fn) when I reverted to using regex while sanitizing a badly bloated codebase. Can feel you right there.

jpc0 on March 24, 2024 [–]

> when I reverted to using regex

Begrudgingly I hope...

If you replaced 4000LoC with a regex that regex scares me...

mehdix on March 25, 2024 | [–]

haha! I did use regex to find and delete repetitive patterns of code with slight variation that would be carried out by the aforementioned function.

I wish I could write such a monstrosity though :)

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