You mean misrepresent the topic and play off bad programming as if OO were the problem; you can write shitty code in any language in any paradigm. Java was ver

You mean misrepresent the topic and play off bad programming as if OO were the problem; you can write shitty code in any language in any paradigm. Java was verbose because it was Java and it lacked many features other language had to remove that verbosity; it wasn't verbose because it was OO. Yegge was spewing shit for traffic at the time, nothing more, his critiques were baseless.