Here's a hypothetical for you. Let's say we have a two working implementations of a chunk of code. One incarnation (code "A") uses map, grep, and other higher order functions, and is 25 lines long. The other piece of code ("B") uses for and while loops and is 75 lines long. We've also done some studies and found the following correlations between programmer experience and time to grok each example... 
   TIME TO UNDERSTAND (minutes)

Experience  | Code "A" | Code "B"
Level       | (maps)   |  (fors)
------------+----------+-----------
Expert      |   10     |   20
Average     |   50     |   35
Entry Level |   120    |   60

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...which coding style would you prefer? (Feel free to make up your own example to show different time breakpoints/code density levels/costs of programmers).

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