[izabera]

30 lines are always going to be easier to read/write/debug than 3000 lines, so it'll probably remain easier (for both humans and machines) to write correct code in languages that make it possible to express ideas concisely and elegantly.

[tptacek]

From elsewhere on the front page: "given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex".

[noelwelsh]

So you write everything in assembly then?

[doug_durham]

That is a false dichotomy. It is not 3000 versus 30. It's 3000 versus 2578 where the DSL is poorly documented by someone who long ago lost interest in maintaining it. I prefer the initial example in the article to the DSL equivalent. I can immediately read the non-DSL code and be productive. The DSL looks like a vanity project.