I believe it is a matter of taste and experience. Some people prefer to read & edit 3-4 concise lines, and some prefer ten pages of prose. > I think the popula

I believe it is a matter of taste and experience. Some people prefer to read & edit 3-4 concise lines, and some prefer ten pages of prose. > I think the popularity of Python for scripting is pretty good evidence that PG was dead wrong on the importance of brevity in programming languages. IMO Python has a fair number of brevity constructs, which was it's one of the selling points, besides keeping other things readable. If you look at the published code from the research community, many of it resembles Matlab or Mathematica's style.