One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody

Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by aequitas on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:28AM (#21826485)

Following your argument I should be able to write any random words to a file and expect the Python interpreter to run it as the program I intended?

Don't see it as a forced rule to restrict people, I can't really see how 1 million lines is a restriction on hand writen code anyways and generators can work around the problem, but more as a contract that sets the boundary on what people can expect. Python interpreter developers know they don't have to expect arbitrary large programs and can optimize their code for everything below 1 million and Python scripts/app developers know within what limits they can expect their code to work.

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Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by Aperocky on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:51AM (#21826738)

Exactly, You can put arbitrary things in a .py folder, if it doesn't run, it's your problem.

Unix didn't limit what you can put in a file, it doesn't expect your program to work when you fill your program with random strings.

The point is, the intepreter developer can feel free to optimize for everything below 1 million, putting a hard cap is pointless. The same reason that most sh file are suffixed as sh despite not needing that suffix at all.

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