software development concepts
In Defense of Verbosity
During the fantastic Monad [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2AC59B30-5A44-4782-B0B7-79FE2EFD1280&displaylang=en] session at PDC 2005*, Jeffrey Snover and Jim Truher illustrated the tradeoff between verbosity and conciseness: cp c:apples c:oranges -fo -r copy-item c:apples c:oranges -force -recurse Monad has a ton