[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best c...
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       Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best code ever
       written?
        
       I want to be able to hold some smallish number of lines of code and
       say "it is generally agreed that this code is amongst the best
       examples of programming that there is".  Does anyone have any
       suggestions for such examples? Any language is fine. As long as
       there's some way to say "look, here is where people say this is
       great code".
        
       Author : andrewstuart
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-08-29 22:25 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
       | belltaco wrote:
       | "Best" is relative, but here's an example of "clever" code that
       | actually shipped in a very popular game, it's just 8 lines.
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       | https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fa...
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       | Also a lot of 4k demo scene have some great looking videos
       | rendered purely by a small amount of code.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W58r7oycUrA
        
       | ozten wrote:
       | Alan Kay has famously cited the half page of code on page 13 of
       | the Lisp 1.5 manual as the "Maxwell's Equations of Software"
       | 
       | https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/html_node/LISP-as-Ma...
        
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