Size is poison, true. Not nearly as much as, say, dynamic typing. At that point you start having the exact same code mean different things at different times.

Size is poison, true. Not nearly as much as, say, dynamic typing. At that point you start having the exact same code mean different things at different times. Plus those analysis tools you have for java do help with complexity. That always baffles me. People get frustrated with java's verboseness for a large project ... and switch to ... python or ruby. Those languages require ridiculous amounts of discipline to work well in large projects (and needless to say, said discipline tends to be absent in the vast majority of developers).