[StillBored]

The problem with "one liners" and other coding is that its generally to clever. One of the things I like about python (despite not liking it that much) is for certain constructs there is "the one true way", for example the required formatting trains people to all read the same code. With C/etc languages there are dozens of different but in the end identical ways to express and format the same construct its crazy. And it creates unnecessary mental overhead, nevermind the if..fi..else ambiguities that aren't even standardized behavior.

So, much of what you are complaining is largely pointless syntactic sugar issues, like people complaining about the difficulty of typing "begin" vs "{" when any modern editor can autocomplete, and nevermind the difficult parts of programming are rarely the limit on how fast one can type 5 characters vs 1. I might even go so far as to say, slowing down a bit probably actually increases the code quality.

(PS: I've programmed professionally in pretty much every mainstream language and quite a number that aren't mainstream. IMHO Object Pascal strikes a far better balance of performant code, ease of development and maintenance, and developer safety than most of the languages in modern use, maybe all of them. Its frankly a shame that more places don't take it more seriously and would rather invent yet another poor half baked language that takes another few thousand man years of effort for the compiler writers and the users to overcome as they are discovered).