Meh. Strictly speaking you are correct, but deconstructing it, it means that we can never say anything is easy (N lines of codes for small N's being synonymous with 'easy'). Yes, it's actually bloody easy to serve a website, and that's a good thing, and if someone didn't know it was possible, it's been helpful to write that 'tutorial'.

All members of the "Do X in N lines or M minutes" meme are examples of stringing together one or more powerful libraries.

> Technically correct, but highly misleading.

Who exactly would be mislead by this? It's April 1st, but was anyone really tricked into thinking a full packet sniffer was written in 10 lines?

For me, getting the first working example running is often the biggest step. Up until then, you don't know whether what you are doing will work at all. After that, you can start fiddling with it and changing bits and pieces.

Saying "Serve a website with 1 line of code!" and then starting apache with that 1 line is useful, because I can then go from there to changing configurations. Fewer lines for the rough draft => fewer places to mess up in unknown ways.