That's a common falsehood though. It does not matter how "simple" each line of code is. What matters is how "simple" the whole application/solution is. You c

That's a common falsehood though. It does not matter how "simple" each line of code is. What matters is how "simple" the whole application/solution is. You can argue that you can write very simple code in Assembler - all instructions are very clearly defined and very simple (well, maybe not anymore in CISC...). Someone can learn them all in a day. The problem is just that now you end up with a lot of code and overall that will be hard to maintain. Compare it to Javascript: certainly not the language where code is most maintainable or simple, but the end-result is easier to maintain then assembler. In the end, the choice of programming language is like a the choice of a compression-tool like gzip. The more complex, the more difficult to learn and use (setting library size and various compression settings) but the output will be smaller compared to a simple tool or no compression (Assembler) while containing the same amount of information.