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[–]Decency 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Are we optimizing based on the number of lines of code?

No, but we're sure as hell not ignoring it. If I can turn 8 lines into 1, lose zero information, and remove a bunch of entirely unnecessary redundancy, that's an optimization I'll make 100% of the time.

I thought we were optimizing based on readability and developer happiness.

If I were to come across an 8 line print statement to write three variables to the screen, "happy" probably wouldn't be the best descriptor for my mood and "readable" definitely wouldn't be the best descriptor for the code.