So I’m going to play the devil’s advocate and say that concise code has a readability advantage in that you don’t need to keep track of intermediate variables o

So I’m going to play the devil’s advocate and say that concise code has a readability advantage in that you don’t need to keep track of intermediate variables or other state across hundreds of lines of code or multiple files. This was/is the promise of languages like APL; those willing to invest in learning arcane and terse symbols can move mountains in a few keystrokes. I know that for my part, when reading a language I’m familiar with, it’s usually much faster to puzzle out a concise solution than a verbose-in-the-name-of-simplicity one.