A couple lines of particularly dense Perl can make life pretty terrible, e.g. compared to many thousands of lines of getter-setter Java. You can pack more langu

A couple lines of particularly dense Perl can make life pretty terrible, e.g. compared to many thousands of lines of getter-setter Java. You can pack more language features into a smaller area with a more expressive language. It follows that a smaller area might hold more complexity and likely more opportunities for errors, and therefore bugs. At the very least, we can say "the LOC-bug relationship doesn't necessarily hold across languages". It's a useful rule-of-thumb, not a universal law.