[swatow]

I realize that I was referring to number of LOC touched a day, not change to the total codebase size. I'm not sure what the first poster had in mind.

For reference, I count myself as writing about ~40 LOC a day for a greenfield project (which I spend about 50% of my time on), measured by total codebase size.

And no, it is not HTML templates, although it is a fairly verbose language. And I do all the things you describe in your first paragraph.

In my experience, a good programmer is almost always a fast programmer, and non-trivial programs usually require a lot of LOC to get the job done.