[JohnFen]

I tend to agree.

For my part, ever since I was a wee lad learning to program for the first time, I've been of the opinion that line counts themselves are a largely worthless metric for anything.

How many lines code takes up is too variable between languages, too variable within the same language, too dependent on irrelevancies like formatting, etc.

What actually matters is logical and conceptual complexity, not line counts.