All of your criticisms are kind of superficial and senseless: - type annotations + HTML in comments - it is called javadoc - 80 column limit - lowest common d

All of your criticisms are kind of superficial and senseless: - type annotations + HTML in comments - it is called javadoc - 80 column limit - lowest common denominator for most people, also historically part of Sun code conventions for Java - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/codeconventions-136091.html#313 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/... - single character variable names - who cares, a symbol is a symbol - variable declarations inside loops - more readable, no chance of referencing stale value outside of scope, and HotSpot will probably recompile anyhow