[Jtsummers]

Right, but your verbose example reduces ease of use.

It's two axes. J is not verbose, but is impenetrable (certainly to a novice, others more familiar see a lot of benefits to it). Ada is fairly verbose, but is pretty easy to understand. A page of Ada code is probably a handful of lines, mostly to aid in clarity, of J code. Though the Ada code has type safety that the J code lacks. Assembly, as someone else referenced, is very verbose, but hard to understand once you get beyond a certain scale.