The argument of the author sounds like an argument of someone who is addicted to writing ugly Perl one-liners. Many, many, complicated and co-dependent one-line

The argument of the author sounds like an argument of someone who is addicted to writing ugly Perl one-liners. Many, many, complicated and co-dependent one-liners. "But I need this expressive power to do things!" Perhaps you primary concern should be about explaining things you did, rather than doing them. Especially if your job it to explain something to people.