He has actually talked about your question. Over the years he has come to believe that size is the enemy of code and verbosity is the portrait of n00b. http://

He has actually talked about your question. Over the years he has come to believe that size is the enemy of code and verbosity is the portrait of n00b. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm... http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht... Also, it's not exactly like he's verbose in his writing. He was verbose in his talking, which makes sense if you think about his forum.