Seriously? Your two examples make the counterpoint to your argument. The first example in Python would be some variant of @get('/') def whatever():

Seriously? Your two examples make the counterpoint to your argument. The first example in Python would be some variant of @get('/') def whatever(): return "Hello World!" Or in Ruby: get "/" do "Hello World!" end Or in Go: http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { fmt.Fprint(w, "Hello World!") }) These other languages, all popular on HN, are nearly identical to the C#, or even longer in a couple of cases. You'd have to go with a project-specific macro package on a Lisp to get much terser. The second C# is also quite terse, IMHO. What would you have preferred? The equivalent Python would be something like __all__ = ['SampleModule'] class SampleModule(nancy.NancyModule): pass which, even if you want to say well, no one in real life uses __all__ (which isn't correct) is still nearly the same length. I don't quite remember the Ruby off the top of my head, but it, too, is similar, as would be Perl. Older C# versions could be verbose, but this seems quite terse to me.