Think of lines of code as surgery to excise a tumor.<p><i>Of course</i> you want to remove the tumor. Curing cancer is the goal. But each surgery is a liability; each scalpel cut you make may bring potentially fatal complications, so you strive to perform as few surgeries as possible while still saving the patient.<p>Rewarding LOCs is like rewarding the high number of surgeries a doctor had to perform on a patient in order to save him&#x2F;her. It&#x27;s backwards!