Cute, but I don't think it works. It's similar to saying "terse code is better code". Unfortunately terse, also often leads to "clever". And clever code, as we

Cute, but I don't think it works. It's similar to saying "terse code is better code". Unfortunately terse, also often leads to "clever". And clever code, as we all know (I hope), is a liability. I'll take verbose and well documented code (speaking of which, you need to strip comments if you want a fair playing field), over "well compressed" code. Having said that, the less unnecessary ceremony in the language the better. The trick is finding that balance.