> as long as it's not overly 'golfed' or obfuscated This restriction is very subjective. For example APL and its descendants can be thought as golfed by defaul

> as long as it's not overly 'golfed' or obfuscated This restriction is very subjective. For example APL and its descendants can be thought as golfed by default (indeed they tend to be far shorter in competitive golfing, see for example [1]). I'm not saying that they are not necessarily unusable! I just want to point out that being shorter doesn't generally mean much without further context. [1] https://code.golf/rankings/langs/all/bytes https://code.golf/rankings/langs/all/bytes