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Oneliner in programming jargon is used to describe code that is written in only one line. Usually such code is unreadable and a spaghetti code, written for sole purpose of exercise or in competition with others to write the shortest code possible (code golfing). It is also possible to "cheat in a oneliner": some programming languages have special characters that can be used instead of a new line (usually semicolon ";" ). Such oneliner is boring and doesn't show any obscure knowledge in a language of choice. Example oneliner in python: print("You've rolled:",__import__("random").randint(1,6)) Where cheated one would look like this: import random; print("You've rolled:", random.randint(1, 6)) And the normal program would look like: import random print("You've rolled:", random.randint(1, 6)) All of the example codes above do a one thing: simulate a dice roll.
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