Those companies that judge output by lines of code are asking for this
I’ve actually seen this type of code produced by a human-being who was trying to write good code. It was one of the students in my introduction to programming class in university, we had to write a function that squared a number or something, and he had written hundreds of lines of if-statements. Sometimes you just use what you know to complete an assignment I guess 🤷
I did something similar for a programming competition once because I couldn’t remember the c64 basic function to return string length.
Once I got home I rewrote it properly because it bugged me so badly. LEN(string variable) was the command. Stupid!
in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff
