<rant>

Most of the coding convention I've seen being used by SW houses seems to promote wastage of lines. I suspect that since in many cases code size is measured in LOC it actually helps quoting a larger number. E.g. I start getting a tad irritated when I have to write code as follows

// Why do I have to put in the enclosing curly braces :(
if(flag)
{
   Func();
}

// Can't I just use get { return foo; } and set {foo = value; }
public CFoo Foo
{
    get
    {
        return foo;
    }

    set
    {
        foo = value;
    }
}