[JoeAltmaier]

Good point. Tangentially, assembly language is extremely modal. Logic can be coded in almost exactly the same number of lines as any high-level language. Compare-and-branch is a single line as in any language.

But compositing data (building argument lists or structured data) can be exhaustingly wordy. A single call with 2 or 3 arguments can take a hundred lines of assembler.

So it all depends.

[userbinator]

And even Asm, while traditionally one-instruction-per-line, can have macros and some syntaxes like RosAsm's allow more than one instruction per line:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/RosAsmTr...