Interesting but I find myself confused. There is not really much discussion about what kinds of implications these metrics might have in practice and what the limitations of this analysis are. Obviously the goals of programming languages vary, and outside of esoteric languages few really strive to be very terse. It seems at least a bit odd to me , then, to make value judgements based on this.

Hate to be a wet towel, since it is interesting. But does it actually mean anything?