When one of these articles come up, I always wonder if the authors have ever looked at APL-family languages and the people who use them, or those who have a similar ultra-compact style even with more mainstream languages; here are the most memorable examples that come to mind:
What's the "cognitive load" of these? Would you rather stare at a few lines of code for an hour and be enlightened, or spend the same amount of time wading through a dozen or more files and still struggle to understand how the whole thing works?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491562
What's the "cognitive load" of these? Would you rather stare at a few lines of code for an hour and be enlightened, or spend the same amount of time wading through a dozen or more files and still struggle to understand how the whole thing works?