It can vary with time and context. I had a long period where mangling text in high prowess was important to me. Because I was somehow in love with programs, and doing lots of things with my fingers felt good and worthy. Also because I was using Java, very verbose as everybody knows.

Some people will love Java and accept its verbosity, I cannot.

Now I found out about lisps, ml, or even ruby and suddenly verbosity decreased.. you need less text edition.

And even more than that, focusing on algorithms and conceptual structures makes you forget about editing, formatting, or even live check etc. You often think deep beforehand. Then type a few things, because the design is more balanced.