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Re:On comparing languages, C++ and Go by CCs on Sunday October 06, 2013 @12:57PM (#6504602)
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.
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Re:On comparing languages, C++ and Go by cmccabe on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:51PM (#6505761)
A more obvious example is minified JS versus regular JS. Briefer? Definitely. More expressive? Definitely not.
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