[vladus2000]

I completely agree. At my first professional programming job, I had to follow a style guide that forced me to code the verbose way. It drove me nuts and I found another job about 6 months later.

The less lines of code, the faster you can read a code base, apply fixes and have less bugs. Obviously you can take that too far and make code so dense no one can read it. It is finding a balance between the two. Comments can go a long way towards making complex code understandable within reason.