AnarchistSpaceDad on Nostr: "For the obituary I wrote for Prof. Wirth, I downloaded the source code of the core ...
"For the obituary I wrote for Prof. Wirth, I downloaded the source code of the core of Project Oberon and ran a line count. It comes out a bit over 4000 lines. Specifically, some 4,623 lines of code, in 262kB of text.
"That's a self-hosting bare-metal OS. It is unbelievably tiny."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/Published at
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