Brevity and Clarity
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, succinctness is not power.
My criticism of Paul Graham’s essay, Succinctness is Power, was that his emphasis was too much on compactness rather than clarity. I tried to make the point that clarity was more important, and that being too compact could interfere with clarity. However, several people have pointed out to me that I was not giving Paul enough credit and that his essay could be paraphrased as: ”undue verbosity obscures clarity”. This is definitely something I agree with.