[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.