[geocar]

For me, terseness is necessary for correctness.

I don't just do this with APLish languages; I do this with C (and lisp, and PHP, and others...)

I've only ever written short programs correctly: If they can fit on a page, I can just look and see whatever bug I might be experiencing.

If someone wants to change my software, it's because they want it to do something that I don't want it to do. They will find value in the fact it is short: That there isn't very much to read. Admittedly, a programmer unexperienced in this method may have some anxieties about it, but given how valuable correctness is, I'd prefer to cause a bit of anxiety in beginners than make programs that need beginners to fix them.