Number of lines is the most ridiculous metric anyway. Most languages have no line length limit, just replace all newlines with semicolons, and you have a one line program!
("Free-format") Fortran has a max line length of 132 chars, up from ("fixed-format") 72 chars on punch cards.
the ANSI C standard has a line length limit, so there are no guarantees that compilers have to function properly with longer lines than given in the standard.