...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...

You will stay at the surface of things if the goal is just to remove LOC from a single method. It's just style, indeed. What should matter is defining levels of abstraction, removing LOCs from the ...