conciseness

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So I'm not a noob who hasn't experienced elegance or conciseness or performance.

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terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

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noun

terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

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Core meanings and parts of speech for conciseness.

noun

terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

See also: concision, pithiness, succinctness

Example sentences

So I'm not a noob who hasn't experienced elegance or conciseness or performance.

So, that's a conciseness vs power trade-off in design from my personal experience.

In comparison to C++ for high performance code, I'd say C# offers free reliability/conciseness etc., and you have to struggle with perf.

It eschews power and conciseness for clarity, everywhere.

The reason why I have not included the entire codebase in the blogpost is conciseness; I only wanted to include what's necessary to illustrate the points I wanted to make.

A sample Hello World program follows: ;; ;; ; As you can see, the dramatically increased lexical vocabulary leads to conciseness of expression.

I'll admit CS users often make a big deal about conciseness, and that can send mixed messages...but I would say in most cases it's about demonstrating that power is there if you need it than saying this is always best practice.