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I think you might be misinterpreting what GP is saying by trimming the end of the quote; they're not saying that making something easier to read makes it harder to write, they're saying that making something easy to read but hard to write is a worthy goal.

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Also, I think "hard to write" is meant as "require that critical or dangerous details are written explicitly; if a feature adds convenience for writing at the expense of reading, it should be avoided". (Type inference, overloads and reflection come to mind)

I think (hope) that no one is advocating making a language verbose or complex for it's own sake.

Like Rust? Rust does most of those things wrt explicit dangerous behaviour.

Exactly.

Thanks, I edited my comment to be more readable.

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