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What’s the most valuable piece of code, line-for-line, ever produced?

I'd vouch for Viterbi's Algorithm...created Qualcomm, wireless networks broadly, bioinformatics, etc

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Ooo cool! Impressive generality. Still in wide use today? A foundational method rather than state of the art?

I'd vouch for Viterbi's Algorithm...created Qualcomm, wireless networks broadly, bioinformatics, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm

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There was one extra line in Apple's SSL certificate verification code, which turned out to be very expensive. The line was:

    goto fail;

There was one extra line in Apple's SSL certificate verification code, which turned out to be very expensive. The line was:

    goto fail;

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

Answering the question "where's the beef?"

Gateway drug b/c it was a lil sip of a potent form of agency, of the ability to make a computer do tangible things?

10 print “hello”
20 goto 10

It was a gateway drug for many early programmers in the 80s. And the first code I ever typed into computer.

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Good shout! Same vibe as below.
https://warpcast.com/boscolo.eth/0x7435080d

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Yah, but what specific thing is it that Nebraska OS martyrs or GOATed DevEngs like Carmack produced/built that’s so valuable?

depending on your world view either some guy in Nebraska maintaining some piece of open source code used everywhere or someone like John Carmack