Especially since the GoF Design Patterns, which are often cited as the main reason for Java being verbose, were described in the original book using C++ (and sm

Especially since the GoF Design Patterns, which are often cited as the main reason for Java being verbose, were described in the original book using C++ (and smalltalk) examples. Just because they may be overused in Java doesn't mean people shouldn't use them at all in other languages.