How about we all stop boasting about how many lines we can write something in, and go back to writing quality software? Who gives a fuck how many lines it is, only thing we should care about is if it's good or not.
Uh, novice here, and although I'm sure we all agree that quality of code > lack of lines of code, there's no reason to bash clever programming. Who cares if it's pragmatic -- that's obviously not the motivation.
Because we shouldn't ever have any fun? We shouldn't check out Blake's cool little micro-framework? We shouldn't use our own blogs for things we find interesting?