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If somebody handed me a program and asked me to prove that there wasn't a virus/security vulnerability hidden somewhere in the source code, yeah I might well say that "I don't like this program because the source code is too long“. Especially if I had to do that for a different program every time I wanted to buy or do pretty much anything at all



I've been arguing that length is just a result of complexity, and at the real problem is complexity.

But I suppose in an extreme case, you could obfuscate a simple program by making it really long.




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