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Re:A Full Web Service with HTTP caching in 7 lines by lsb on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @07:20AM (#494275)
That was the interesting thing for me: not that you couldn't do it in a shorter number of characters, but that it was 7 lines of code written for people to read, and incidentally for machines to execute.
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Re:A Full Web Service with HTTP caching in 7 lines by rfunduk on Saturday February 28, 2009 @01:11PM (#498347)
There are many hundreds more lines in the background of the sinatra example the OP lists (the 7 lines, that is).
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