My point was that it hasn't stopped Java from becoming popular--more popular than Python, even! After all, people do choose to deal with all the wanton complexi

My point was that it hasn't stopped Java from becoming popular--more popular than Python, even! After all, people do choose to deal with all the wanton complexity of Java. Also, the example of hello world doesn't show much about complexity. After all, in Haskell it's just: main = putStr "Hello World"