How to Become a Bad Developer
>It is very common, especially among novice developers, to be proud of the number of line of code their application has.<p>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.<p>I also disagree with that author's views on this point. For example: "Simply put, it means “the less, the better”" - No, it isn't.<p>In my career I found that maintaining unsexy, and maybe a little verbose code is never the problem. Usually that code tends to be more easily understandable to even junior developers and therefore is less prone to bugs being introduced because developer made the wrong assumptions on what the code was doing. Code that is too clever for its own good is where bugs tend to occur.