Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python
I've noticed the odd trend of people bragging about how few lines it took to do X. Seems like people are trying to equate less loc == better code, which is not usually the case (better/more robust error handing and correcting, more complicated AI logic, etc).<p>It just means you are using a more abstracted version of whatever.<p>In reality, a 111 lines of Python program is likely thousands of lines if you were to count all of the standard Python libraries and/or any 3rd party libraries used.<p>What if I took this program, wrapped it in say, 5 lines of Python, then said I implemented chess in 5 lines of Python? Did I really? Of course not... but it makes for a good attention grabber.