>>In terms of boilerplate code, I'd love to see his exact examples. Seriously, this is likely asking proof regarding the presence of sun during broad day light

>>In terms of boilerplate code, I'd love to see his exact examples. Seriously, this is likely asking proof regarding the presence of sun during broad day light. >>With annotations, I've found that plenty of Java code is actually not verbose at all. Again. Are you really serious? >>If he churned out thousands of classes when actually he could have reduced the number of classes to 50, then that's an example of poor management and poor workmanship, certainly not a problem with the language. You certainly haven't ready his book 'Higher Order Perl'.