To be fair, unless you're doing something absurd the length of variable names shouldn't significantly affect the number of lines. Also comments with typos aren'

To be fair, unless you're doing something absurd the length of variable names shouldn't significantly affect the number of lines. Also comments with typos aren't really a problem. I don't like hard-to-read code either, but the more years I work the more I think that the shortest (within reason) code is the best code. That is to say, golfing is bad unless for fun, shorter code is usually better, the shitty hard to read code is probably a reflection of human laziness rather than misguided tersity.