Actually Quorum looks much more verbose than Perl. That may be the main distinctive feature helping absolute newcomers to grasp the code. In that vein, Java pro

Actually Quorum looks much more verbose than Perl. That may be the main distinctive feature helping absolute newcomers to grasp the code. In that vein, Java probably would fare way better than most terser languages, too. This would be something to test for (on a significant number of guinea pigs preferably).