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by pphysch 862 days ago
It's meaningful here because if it said "A search engine in 4000 lines of Python" most readers' eyes would glaze over, but 80 is short enough to warrant a glance.
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"A search engine in 80 columns of Python code!"
"A search engine in 80 lines of Python code" (but every line is 10 statements separated by semicolon)