> I think most professional programmers could write a relational database in under 1000 lines. Arthur did SQL92 in 20: > http://web.archive.org/web/20060505221834/http://kx.com/q/e/....

I can make any program only 1 line long if I remove all the newlines. I don't care if a program fits on one screen if it is unreadable. The example you cite is a poor example of a valuable program as it is on purpose made to be difficult to reason about.