(2014) Yeah java 6/7 was verbose, but it's nothing representative of the language now. You might as well point out the problems of C++03. Streams, lambdas, met

(2014) Yeah java 6/7 was verbose, but it's nothing representative of the language now. You might as well point out the problems of C++03. Streams, lambdas, method references, records, and local variable inference make it pretty fluent to write and at the very least it has a sane standard library (I can't say as much for Scala). Also as for their intro problem what type of Java programmer worth their salt can't do: while (true) System.out.print(System.in.read());