[matwood]

Nothing makes me happier than removing code. If I can find ways to deliver the same functionality in less code I get excited.

Now, I do like to look at my personal lines of code because it gives me a gauge to compare features I implement on a relative basis. It also gives me a relative, rough measure how much effort a particular feature took to produce.

[RogerL]

You will like this story from Apple, when they for a time required engineers to report LOC produced that week.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Neg...

[zrail]

I have a friend who styles himself as a "professional code deleter" and who loves to post his diffstats when they're very large negatives.