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I have always wondered why people think "terseness" of the programming language leads to being able to deliver solutions faster. I have found that the nailing d

I have always wondered why people think "terseness" of the programming language leads to being able to deliver solutions faster. I have found that the nailing down business requirements ,end user expectations and integration with other enterprise components is the most time consuming part of my solution development cycle.

jerf 11y ago
Because for a good long time, programming languages were accidentally complex, and verbosity and hoop-jumping were a legitimately large amount of the development time. 1990s-era C++ GUI programming makes my eyes bleed. I don't think this is particularly true anymore, but ideas take 15-20 years to finally die out in the programming world, and we're only 5-10 years into that cycle. Languages still have varying degrees of accidental complexity but compared to where we used to be, you almost always have the choice of some nearly-optimal language. (Many may still not avail themselves of those choices but that's their own problem.)