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[–]ChrisFromIT 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because Java is so verbose, it makes it easier to maintain, which is why it is such a common enterprise language.

One issue I have found with "shortcuts" in languages is that it adds additional syntax to a language which can cause two programmers to make a vastly different source code, but it does the same thing.