I can see you have never done any Cobol programming. Add x to y giving z. Or somesuch. C is quite verbose, because you have to write your interfaces as .h fil

I can see you have never done any Cobol programming. Add x to y giving z. Or somesuch. C is quite verbose, because you have to write your interfaces as .h files. The library support is rather thin, so you have to keep reimplementing common functions over and over. Java has another kind of verbosity Hashmap<String, String> s = new Hashmap<String, String>(); The compiler ought to be able to figure this stuff out by itself. (I know. Some relief is on the way.) Java pays the bills, but I would rather Python. At the other end of the scale is APL where you can model the universe in one line of code.