Linked in that article (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/code-used-time-used-shapes.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/code-used-time-

Linked in that article (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/code-used-time-used-shapes.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/code-used-time-...) is a comparison of conciseness and performance. Interesintgly the FP languages are put in a right-more / less-concise column than Go, C, C++ (unless I am reading it wrong). Since the verbosity of error handling in Go is part of the debate here, are not FP languages often more concise? Is "concise-ness" really an issue?