Comment by jmkr

I think this is addressed in the link under that section

https://paulgraham.com/power.html

> I think that the main reason we take the trouble to develop high-level languages is to get leverage, so that we can say (and more importantly, think) in 10 lines of a high-level language what would require 1000 lines of machine language.

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> 5. Write rereadable code. All programmers know it's good to write readable code. [...] If you're writing for other people, you may not want to make code too dense. Some parts of a program may be easiest to read if you spread things out [...] Whereas if you're writing code to make it easy to reload into your head, it may be best to go for brevity.