compact

   Of  a  design,  describes  the  valuable  property that it can all be
   apprehended  at  once  in  one's head. This generally means the thing
   created  from  the design can be used with greater facility and fewer
   errors  than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does
   not  imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and
   FORTRAN  is  not, but C is more powerful than FORTRAN. Designs become
   non-compact through accreting {feature}s and {cruft} that don't merge
   cleanly  into  the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of {Classic
   C} maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact).

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