Fun programming puzzler

In this thread: Fiel says longer variable names make you lose.

You should have made the first criteria "minimum number of operations" instead of "minimum number of characters", otherwise h4x0rz language users (Devil's Sunrise) win.

Pretty hard to quantify what an operation is.

a += b could be considered one operation
a += b could be considered two operations (add A to B, store in A)
a += b could be considered four operations (fetch A, fetch B, add A to B, store in A)

One regex call could be considered one operation or thousands of operations.

Soooo yeah, I'd like to see you try to define what an operation is exactly.