I think that the author of this article is mistaking LOC for readability. Despite colorForth being wonderfully concise and independent of any operating system, that doesn&#x27;t make it convenient or readable for future programmers.  Just because something is a number of lines longer than another something, doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s less readable.<p>Take Perl, for example. I often write Perl scripts, and they&#x27;re very few lines, but nobody can read them, which is really what matters. So, I&#x27;ll expand it to be more C-like (calling functions with parentheses, using less implied arguments and scalar&#x2F;vector contexts, etc.), thus making it very easily readable by people that don&#x27;t even know Perl. I regard this revised version much better than the more Perl-like and obfuscated (although shorter!) version.