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		lsb on Feb 25, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Full Web Service with HTTP caching in 7 lines That was the interesting thing for me: not that you couldn't do it in a shorter number of characters, but that it was 7 lines of code written for people to read, and incidentally for machines to execute.

rfunduk on Feb 28, 2009 [–]

There are many hundreds more lines in the background of the sinatra example the OP lists (the 7 lines, that is).

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