I would argue that it's easier to understand short, even excessively terse, code than it is to understand long code. I can look at a few lines of Haskell and ev

I would argue that it's easier to understand short, even excessively terse, code than it is to understand long code. I can look at a few lines of Haskell and even though deciphering it may take me some time, the cognitive overhead of anything other than working out what the code is doing is very low (the most I'd have to do is look up some operators). I can see a significant chunk of logic all at once and piece together the system as a whole. Meanwhile I could look at 3 files full of Java and have no idea what the system is actually doing.