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Unless you're writing a kernel from scratch, you're calling lots of code someone else wrote once upon a time...


If you do that your program probably does more than just call what you're saying the program does. This is like someone saying they wrote a one line memory allocator and calling mmap or saying you wrote a one line video converter that just calls ffmpeg.


Even if you're writing a kernel, you're using a compiler. And if you're writing a compiler it's probably bootstrapped and built by itself, so you're still using a mountain of code some other people wrote. :)


Naturally. But I wouldn't necessary expect "Ruby" to be "Ruby plus 5k lines of more Ruby."




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