Objective-C itself is not verbose, method names can be as long or as short as you like. You can have method names with only colons if you want: - (void):(id)pa

Objective-C itself is not verbose, method names can be as long or as short as you like. You can have method names with only colons if you want: - (void):(id)param1 :(id)param2 :(id)param3 Keyword names do not have to be unique such as: - (void)drawLine:(id)gfxContext x:(double)x1 y:(double)y1 x:(double)x2 y:(double)y2 Cocoa/Cocoa Touch is verbose, but Objective-C is not (it is by far my favorite programming language)