Why is verbosity bad for a programming language?

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Published on 2012-03-23T12:36:52Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 17:39 UTC
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I have seen many people around complaining about verbosity in programming languages. I find that, within some bounds, the more verbose a programming language is, the better it is to understand. I think that verbosity also reinforces writing clearer APIs for that particular language.

The only disadvantage I can think of is that it makes you type more, but I mean, most people use IDEs that do all that work for you.

so, What are possible downsides to a verbose programming language?

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