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Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by throwaway8941 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:31AM (#21826516)
Nix developers ran into this very limit.

https://lwn.net/Articles/779997/

Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by aidenn0 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:17PM (#21827024)
Unless they split the line without whitespace, that example is already non-portable because it's not well defined what happens to shebangs with more than one argument. IIRC linux merges all of them into a single argument, but other unixen do different things.
Re:One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody by saagarjha on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:41PM (#21827840)
And people struggle to find examples of Linux bending over backwards for compatibility…