[adamc]

There's a cost to that too, unfortunately. Longer code may be easier to unserstand line by line, but the sheer volume of lines can make it harder to comprehend. Terseness has its advantages.

Usually, making good developers write code for less experienced developers makes the code quality worse. OTOH, it can then be maintained by entry-level developers.

[cloverich]

> Terseness has its advantages.

I'd argue there's a difference between being concise and being terse. I think that's what's at the heart of beautiful code: It expresses its ideas in a very simple, concise manner, without sacrificing readability. ("As simple as possible, but not simpler")