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Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “ There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C. ”
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Linked from 13 Hacker News comments by 10 different people, from Apr 2012 to May 2026.
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