[yohanatan]

You can be sure if you want but unless you back up your claim with some reasoning, others will consider you wrong.

[CCs]

A line from a real code (a library):

    "* ^^"._? #> (a.!?(1, Get())) must be_==(Full(Answer(1))) ?~! eventually

It is very short, most of the people would implement the same thing using 5-10 lines of code. I prefer 5-10 lines of code over regex-like syntax.

[cmccabe]

A more obvious example is minified JS versus regular JS. Briefer? Definitely. More expressive? Definitely not.

[cmccabe]

"Brevity and expressiveness are not the same."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Yes."

Do I need to explain?

[yohanatan]

I think you're confusing expressiveness of the language with expressiveness of a particular text written in that language. English certainly affords you the opportunity to share more thoughts but given that you seemingly only wanted to express an affirmative, in English 'yes' is pretty much the minimum. You could have said 'Ya' but that is slang. If you open up the choice of language then you could have said 'si', or '#t' or even just '1'. But with such a short intended message, language choice hardly matters.

Certainly if you intended to say more than 'yes' then you failed at adequately expressing the message to begin with so comparisons at that point are moot: i.e., two pieces of text must both express precisely the same ideas before comparisons of them make sense.