Yeah, but you can actually understand what is going on in Java pretty quickly and get the weird corners cases on Stack Overflow. By contrast, C++ requires that

Yeah, but you can actually understand what is going on in Java pretty quickly and get the weird corners cases on Stack Overflow. By contrast, C++ requires that the user understand most of the minutiae, details, corner cases, and weird things that the language describes just to get a rather low level of competence. The length of a language spec has little to do with its usability.