[larsu]

What do you mean? I think it would probably be shorter in most languages given the right toolkit.

[zxoq]

He's alluding to his own coding ability being inferior to the author's (I presume).

[ralfd]

You are correct, I alluded to that. I thought about how I would have coded that as a native App (Java/Objective-C). Or just done it straight in C/C++ with Image-Loading, Image placement, different colors, a Button and then the animation.