It's precisely a slippery slope argument[1], which is generally much debatable. Perl somewhat indulged the nix culture tendency to write extremely concise and

It's precisely a slippery slope argument[1], which is generally much debatable. Perl somewhat indulged the nix culture tendency to write extremely concise and cryptic one-liners, but* this does not mean that verbosity is good and expressiveness is bad. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope