[jodrellblank]

"Economy of Expression. [..] It requires fewer lines. It require fewer characters. It require fewer hours. It requires fewer mental gymnastics. So, here, for your entertainment, is the program that prints the first 25 squares of integers."

    (println (take 25 (map #(* % %) (range))))

And in APL[1], iota 25 is the first 25 integers, and feeding the same list into both sides of multiply squares the list, then turning it from a row to a column is tabling it. "Table the multiply-commute of the first 25 integers":

    ⍪×⍨⍳25

It's fewer lines, fewer characters, fewer hours, less syntax, less grammar, fewer symbols, fewer functions, less nesting, fewer mental gymnastics. Yet .. worse? Because those things you say both lead you towards codegolf, and implicitly have "fewer mental gymnastics" mean "I'm familiar with it already".

[1] https://tryapl.org/?a=%u236A%D7%u2368%u237325&run