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Marin David Condic wrote:
> deliberately making language design decisions on the assumption that 
> clarity = verbosity and the basis that clarity at the expense of brevity 
>  makes software development more productive. Is there any demonstration 

Perhaps some people are.  I'm not making language decisions,
but if I were, it would not be on the basis that
"clarity = verbosity"

It would be

   clarity   = good

   cryptic   = bad

   verbosity = irrelevant

   brevity   = irrelevant

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Wes Groleau
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