Article :: Languages, Verbosity, and Java

With the new spate of programming languages emerging for the Java virtual machine and other platforms, more important than ever that the rules of a language make code clear and concise. But clarity and conciseness exactly go hand in hand. Dhanji R. Prasanna compares some of these new languages with a popular mainstay, Java, contrasts their expressiveness, and explains why Java is verbose for a reason.

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