> 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. Depends

> 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. Depends on the culture. A lot of offshored programmers will report their "performance" as number of lines written. With the expected results...