Paul GrahamVerified account

Then it turns into a game of Code Golf and instead of many lines of code that some people can parse, you get very few LoC that nobody can understand.

That's the real challenge: Implementing a new feature, in total reducing the total lines of code Get's tougher every time you do it too, like levels in a game

e.g. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt …

Even when starting the project?

Code golf!

Some of my most productive days coding have been days with net negative lines of code. Few things are nicer than deleting code.