> My experience has been the opposite. Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count. I would

> My experience has been the opposite. Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count. I would agree with that. But then again, it isn't entirely incompatible with the cited quote. That is, at different times in their careers, developers may tend to do different things. In any case, I think I understand the original quote as something I have indeed seen somewhat frequently in large projects. It seems somewhat common, from my experience at least, that people -particularly "not-so-good developers"- involved in large projects tend to assert how large/important the project in fact is, by mentioning LOCs. "This is a very large project... It's about 5.5MLOCs or so. It will have grown a bit since we last counted."