> Is it a permathread somewhere to debate whether any such 
> measurements have 
> any value? Typically when I've been hired to rewrite someone 
> else's buggy 
> code, the fixed code has been shorter (sometimes much 
> shorter) than the 
> unfixed code.
> 

Agreed. I once earned my employer a nice 4-figure sum by rewriting a
customer's 600 line stylesheet that didn't work as a 20 line stylesheet that
did.

Michael Kay