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> ... Java is that its terseness ... Compared to what? Java has a reputation for many things, but terseness of syntax is not one of them. I'm not trying to be

• mahmud 17y ago
  Elaborate syntax over an impoverished evaluation model and semantics. Java is inspired by p-code; you could implement a p-code interpreted with one switch statement in two pages. A handful of primitive types + an straightforward single inheritence class based object system. The GC is run of the mill. Control semantics are none existent; try/catch is even more straightforward than C's longjmps. The whole thing is small enough to be compiled for an early 90s set-top box running a 16-bit micro, and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's beautiful.