https://vimeo.com/9270320 https://vimeo.com/9270320 (Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True). It seems we

https://vimeo.com/9270320 https://vimeo.com/9270320 (Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True). It seems we have scientific data showing that the number of code lines one can review per day doesn't depend on the programming language. This means one would spend a lot more time reviewing this C++ code if you looking at the manually-rewritten-to-assembly version instead. This is a very good argument supporting programming at the highest possible level of abstraction, which is the exact opposite of boilerplate and verbosity. So please let's not rationalize/stockholm-syndrome over the limitations of any programming language ; boilerplace and verbosity are always bad.