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If a couple of esoteric language features can consistently reduce your codebase tenfold, you might want to rethink how you engineer your apps. Unless you're writing your application in FORTRAN (and I mean the version before 1958 and the introduction of procedural code) or assembly, I doubt there are any two general-purpose languages that show a 10x difference in code size in large applications.


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