Not at all. If its taking 100 lines to do something and I can rewrite in 10, then that's a lot less places for bugs to hide. That's less than one screen of cod

Not at all. If its taking 100 lines to do something and I can rewrite in 10, then that's a lot less places for bugs to hide. That's less than one screen of code for the next person to read / comprehend. In most cases its a win (though I will admit that sometimes comprehension is easier with less concise code).