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There are benefits of having a low number of lines of codes, e.g. if you want to print out on a paper (and reduce the number of pages), or store on a disk with a limited storage (although number of bytes is a more useful measure, then), or if you want to read it to understand it in less time than a longer program, etc. Of course, the limit of number of characters on each line, is also necessary, then.

However, that doesn't solve everything. Many things it does not accurately measure, e.g. complexity, number of stuff in one line, program speed, memory usage, etc. Those are other things to measure, and it can be helpful to reduce memory usage etc, but that is not the number of lines of codes.