I think that's the part of the blog post that resonated most with me. There seems to be this perverse belief that shortening code is always a positive, no matte

I think that's the part of the blog post that resonated most with me. There seems to be this perverse belief that shortening code is always a positive, no matter how much black magic it requires. Traceability seems to always be the first thing burnt at the stake to appease the god's desire to save 3 characters; which I find strange, because it's the most fundamental requirement of good code. If you can't work back through the code to find the source of a bug, your code is an unmaintainable pile of shit. No amount of proper whitespace use will save you.