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Re:Signs that you're a good programmer by scrabble on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:34PM (#5608623)
This may not always be indicative of positive quality.

I could reduce the line count on many files and increase complexity and reduce maintainability.

Re:Signs that you're a good programmer by qu4z-2 on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:50PM (#5611230)
It's the problem with optimising on metrics.

It seems unlikely that you would encounter someone who naturally reduced line counts while making code worse, but once it's being checked whether you're reducing line counts...