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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by tokamak-teapot on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:23PM (#30900809)
Presumably VB.NET? Because the VB6 IDE wouldn’t let you write more than 65534 lines [1]. Don’t ask how I discovered this.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstu...

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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by vsareto on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:51PM (#30901554)
>Don’t ask how I discovered this.

Like most of the world at one point, it ran on Excel 2003

/s

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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by Forge36 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:48PM (#30901052)
I too learned this lesson the hard way.
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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by cbanek on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:25AM (#30904107)
Came here looking for this. <3
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