Java is verbose because it's inexpressive, not because it's good at documenting. It's Objective-C with everything too interesting removed, but they never added

Java is verbose because it's inexpressive, not because it's good at documenting. It's Objective-C with everything too interesting removed, but they never added enough of it back. Classic essay being http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom....