>I don't buy that concision is power. This borders on a tautology, but expressiveness is power. Concision is part of that (a big part, even), but it's not every

>I don't buy that concision is power. This borders on a tautology, but expressiveness is power. Concision is part of that (a big part, even), but it's not everything. Yeah, I completely agree. I was going to write about it, but then figured it wasn't relevant to the question. I'd love to discuss these old PG essays one day.