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Out of curiosity, how far down that road did you go? As far as I know you've never given any public indication of how well you can program (which is emphatically nonbinary), but some people seem to think it's important. (I realize that programming skill is notoriously difficult to measure, but a crude approximation, such as log-lines-written, would be sufficient.)
Log-lines-written? Probably around 5.
100000 lines? Woah. Where are they all? You didn't program for money or contribute to open source projects, right?
100k lines sounds like a lot, but it isn't, especially considering the reduced concept-density of both older languages and novice programmers. My first 100k lines were unpublishable.
100000 lines is probably an underestimate. Doing a line count on all the files in my development directory, I find that I've got about 35000 lines of code in there, and I still consider myself somewhat of an amateur (I've been coding for about a year now). I code probably five hours a week or so, so a full-time programmer with similar productivity who had been programming for a decade would have written 2.8 million lines of code.
100000 lines sounds like a lot, but it's really not.
Huh. I was assuming the natural base, e.
I considered that possibility and disregarded it because exp(5) ~ 148, which is way too low.