prolixity

It's funny; my fourth-grade English teacher had a sign on her wall that read "Eschew prolixity.

Yes; prolixity yields clarity in programming about as much as in prose.

When authors were paid by the word, prolixity was effectively encouraged, and this is obvious in some of Poe's work.

A variation, actually, on Mark Twain's "eschew surplusage".But "prolixity" does not mean using long words.

Continental philosophy gets most of the brunt of this because of the prolixity and verbosity of their texts.

The paper has security features and the tax feature is a way both to obtain revenue and discourage prolixity.

Spirit is perhaps an example of a part of Boost that doesn't justify its prolixity; Boost::Function another, and a case where C++ is really what's to blame.

I’ll take Erlang’s conciseness and readability over Elixir’s prolixity any day.

For example, "be brief" in the Maxim of Manner is given the unnecessarily prolix gloss "avoid unnecessary prolixity".

They may become entirely ignorant of the ecclesiastical modes, which they have already ceased to distinguish and the limits of which they abuse in the prolixity of their notes.

As a qualitative, nonfunctional stylistic, ergonomic opinion, I find Haskell much more flexible and beautiful than the ugliness of most brace-, paren- and prolixity-heavy languages.