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It makes total sense when you want to actually sit down and write something like this. The point is that this is an easy, quick-to-hack-together thing, not a big project.

> My point is that the title is not really useful.

For a developer, knowing how many lines are needed to get something done with a given API can be a good indicator of how generally nice it is to work with -- compare Python's URLLib vs the Requests library, for example.

This is why his grievance wasn't with the text but the title.

Good grief! Do you want this team to build the computer from discrete components, then custom code their OS using dip switches too?

Of course not, that's an absurd exaggeration.

As long as they used less than 10 dip switches

adplz, I can do wifi ssid sniffing using 0 lines of code and only using my mouse. Oh yeah, and Wireshark. But that is irrelevant according to lloeki.