If I am reading your paragraph, I may look up 'perspicuously' and find it in the dictionary. I have to learn about this word to understand your paragraph? You need three extra syllables to express what could be expressed much more clearly as: 'So, you need two lines of extra code to express what could be expressed much more clearly as:'.
Reminds me of an anecdote on George Orwell's writing style I found as part of an NPR article[1]: A scrupulous writer, Orwell notes, will ask himself: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What fresh image will make it clearer? Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? The alternative is simply "throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you — even think your thoughts for you — concealing your meaning even from yourself. It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear." -deech [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6124822