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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by GnarfGnarf on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:00PM (#13428547)
That is absurd. You can't write an OS in 100KLOC.
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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by abecedarius on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:23PM (#13428789)
http://www.projectoberon.com/ is released and small enough for a book in the dead-trees format.
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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by dreish on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:24PM (#13428796)
In case you're not joking, MINIX is much smaller than 100KLOCs.
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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by srpeck on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:21PM (#13430400)
Check out stats on the kOS/kparc project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9316091

There is also a more recent example of Arthur Whitney writing a C compiler in <250 lines of C. Remarkable how productive a programmer can be when he chooses not to overcomplicate.

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Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? by nickpsecurity on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @07:47PM (#13431961)
Everything I saw in the link looks like K, not C. Do you have a link to the C compiler done in C language?
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