Which is why lines-of-code should be a *negative* metric.
There is something supremely satisfying about taking a terrible tangle of code and reducing it to something that is, all at once, more elegant, compact, clear, secure, robust, readable
, efficient, portable, extensible and maintainable. It a wonder we software developers can be persuaded to do anything but refactor code.
I love whittling down an algorithm until it looks like just a fragment of code, it's one of the main reasons I like C and hate Java so much. Dynamic typing fucking rules.
