Somewhat related to the whole livecode issue is this;
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13512
Kijjaz cooked up this game of very short ChucK programs;
"let's make up some rules for this game:
* the code must be on only 1 line
* no more than 80 characters
* crazy
"
To me that has a smilar sort of idea to livecoding but where livecoding rewards writing as quickly as possible this rewards writing as compactly as possible. At least that topic should demostrate that a lot can be done without labouring over 5000 lines spread out over at least ten files...
Kas.