Some of your examples are incorrect. For example, JAVA > System.out.println("hello world") Nice try dude. You cannot simply compile and run that statement. You need > public static void main(string[] args) { > System.out.println("hello world") > } Which is quite a bit more verbose than `10 ?"Hello world"` Plus, the Lisp example isn't technically an application. Nor a routine of any kind. It's simply a string. Edit: inb4 "nitpicking". Nuance is crucial to logic, mathematics.