Quote from: kmfkewm on August 20, 2013, 11:27 pmThe security community says that more code equals more bugs. More code means more complexity, more complexity means more bugs. People make on average a certain number of mistakes per X lines of code. Removing X lines of code removes those bugs. If you can remove code and still meet your goal, you should always do it....The number one rule of security programming is express every program in as absolute little code as required to meet your objective. Any additional code is just introducing additional security vulnerabilities for no reason at all.I've never understood the preoccupation people have with lines of code... I honestly don't think this should even be considered during development -- something tangent to the number of lines, if you will, of course; but certainly not the actual number of lines themselves. If you're actually attempting to limit your "lines" of code then you're doing yourself a disservice and training your mind to think in ways that make it harder to solve problems. Frankly I think there's far too much worrying about how much whitespace is on the screen going on here...I don't know, something about the superficiality of these statements really rubs me the wrong way.