That's a strawman. Concise code != hieroglyphs. In fact, if you need hieroglyphs to keep your code concise that's a deficiency of the language. This is why we

That's a strawman. Concise code != hieroglyphs. In fact, if you need hieroglyphs to keep your code concise that's a deficiency of the language. This is why we want expressive languages in the first place.