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LOC = lines of code
Narrator is speaking about the Kemeny [^] who invented BASIC.
Quote: Probably thought to himself, "I bet I could write a compiler." You know a compiler is a big program: 3,000 lines of code.
From the youTube video about the Birth of the BASIC computer language...
Birth of BASIC - YouTube[^]
Oh, how the times have a changed! 
NPM, anyone? 
modified 9-Dec-19 9:35am.
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If you really know every single line of the program, so that you can explain why it is there and what it does, and you can tell the effect of changing it, then the program is not big.
I have never been working with a program in excess of 30 KLOC without, every now and then, scratching my head, asking "Why the *** is it programmed like that?" - even when it is programmed by myself. So it is a big program.
I guess that for me, the big programs start somewhere between 10 KLOC and 30 KLOC, depending on the complexity of the code.
With one exception: Any APL program exceeding 30 lines is big. 
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Member 7989122 wrote: If you really know every single line of the program, so that you can explain why it is there and what it does, and you can tell the effect of changing it, then the program is not big.
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Overweight
Six = over
Stone = weight
Thought it was easy
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Very British
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Good point
Over could be got by Aussies/Indians though.
I’m not sure if any other countries use stone as a weight. Didn’t consider it to be honest but would assume people from most countries would Be aware of it
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You're right, that should have been easy.
Fat > Overweight should have been very obvious, yet somehow nobody got it. Kind of makes one realise how distracting other elements can sometimes be!
Also, I don't much care for cricket. 
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I actually regretted putting fat in the clue just after I posted as I thought it would be too easy.
I guess six had people going down the words that start with “vi” route
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I tried combinations of vi and hex but couldn't come up with anything.
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Can you explain the six = over for us 'Mericans, please?
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It is a cricket term for six balls being bowled; after which the bowler and wicket keeper switch ends.
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Pompey 3 wrote: Thought it was easy
Only if you love cricket and imperial measurements.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If I recall the DS9 terminology, he's "joined the Great Link".
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butterball
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Delusional?
(Characteristically, "Anorexic" wasn't big enough)
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So what was it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think sander should win for his answer
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Impossible. If "yourmother" weighs 6 stone (~38 kg), she is certainly not fat. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Unless she's also very small 
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Tiny old lady at the doctor's office:
- Doctor, doctor, it feels as if I am getting smaller and smaller!
- Well, I guess you just have to learn to be a little patient.
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