Yeah, I was also thinking along those lines when writing my comment. That there trade-offs are like those in a Huffman tree. So one easily accessible/expresible

Yeah, I was also thinking along those lines when writing my comment. That there trade-offs are like those in a Huffman tree. So one easily accessible/expresible feature means many more distant ones. Has someone thought and wrote about this? And there are other aspects that don't quite fit the information theory model (like using infix notation for operators or not, from Paul Graham's post).