> Just repeating the same thing twice doesn't help with anything. I completely agree - but not all (or even most) of Java's verbosity is from repetition. The t

> Just repeating the same thing twice doesn't help with anything. I completely agree - but not all (or even most) of Java's verbosity is from repetition. The traditional example of `Foo foo = new Foo();` as repetition ignores the fact that `Foo` will not always be repeated as the first will often be an interface (or superclass) and the second will be an implementation, e.g. `Set<String> set = new HashSet<>();` > What features does Java have that you're saying help code convey more information or lead it to be expressed more clearly? My comment regarding verbosity wasn't in comparison to Scala, I was thinking of Ruby, Python, Lua, et al (I'm a huge fan of Scala btw, but the post was on the benefits of Java versus dynamic languages). Anyway to answer your question with a few examples: * Java's method signature gives me a lot of information, looking at `public int doStuff(String foo)` tells me the visibility, what it will return, and exactly what I can pass it - even to someone completely unfamiliar with the language. Looking at `def doStuff foo` tells me nothing other than how many arguments it takes (if you're familiar with Ruby you'll also know the visibility). * Similarly when you see `return foo` you know (even knowing nothing about Java) that it's returning `foo` and that `foo` is the intended return value. * Someone who's never read a line of Java in their life can look at `Map<String, Integer> foo = new HashMap<>();` and know that `foo` is a map (and will most likely conclude it has Strings for keys and integers for values). If you've never coded in Lua and you see `foo = {}` you have no idea what that is (if you've seen similar in other languages you can make a good guess, but you don't know).