[DrScientist]

I don't know who is was - but somebody once said code is typically written once and read many times.

ie what matters is not the number of characters you have to type, but how easy the resulting code is to understand.

And here there are two factors - the verbosity and the conceptual load.

I think the mistake some language geeks forget is the importance of the conceptual load- the language surface area/complexity - and they tend to focus on brevity at the expense of conceptual complexity.