I'm going to set my terminal width to 1 character. That way my "lines" of code count goes way up.

An Ask Lemmy topic recently was "what are some video games that don't exist." I gave three answers, but held one back because it does technically exist.

SQIJ! for the ZX Spectrum was designed to be terrible by a programmer that, as I understand it, was contractually obligated to program a game, but had grown to hate the company. He wrote a game that turned the caps lock on so none of the movement keys worked, and if you edit the code with a memory poke to turn caps lock off, you'll find there's no game. It was written in BASIC, and the first line is the most passive aggressive thing I've ever read:

1 goto 2

Here's a very simple example.

What's 3^3?

Or,

Well it's 3x3x3

Which is 3+3+3, 3 times.

Which is 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3, which is 27.

Which solution do we prefer?

3^3 = 27?

Or

3+3+3

+3+3+3

+3+3+3

=27?

Which one uses more lines?