[alecbenzer]

"It could be done in 1 line of C when he left out the line-breaks." Yeah, exactly. It's incredibly silly when people "count" lines of code like this. If you want to talk about lines of code in any kind of practical way, the code you're referring to really needs to be at least somewhat sanely formatted according to the conventions of whatever language you're in. Otherwise, any given sample of code can be in {1,2,3,...,# of characters in program} lines of code. You should just count characters (which is the more appropriate thing to do when you're trying to write a compressed program anyway). A metric of lines of code = ceil(characters/80) is weird because a) it's relatively arbitrary (in that it has nothing to do with languages but with the conventions of terminals), and b) it goes against the more common understanding of "lines of code".

/rant

I think compressed (edit: golfed - new word of the day :) code in general is pretty cool, though.