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by radanskoric 391 days ago
I didn't put the number into the title to make it a competition. LoC is a poor metric. I put it to communicate to the reader that they won't have to spend a lot of time reading the article to get a full understanding.

I always put extra effort into trying to make my blog posts shorter without sacrificing the quality. I think good technical writing should transfer the knowledge while requesting the least amount of time possible from the reader.

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I know, I was only responding to the comment, I was not trying to claim that you are attempting to make it a competition, my bad if it came across as such.
It's good that you commented. I see more than a few people are getting caught up on the number of lines so it's good that I clarify.