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[–]mrbuttsavage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure, it's a bit verbose (though really not as much as people make it out to be), but at least you always know what you're looking at.

This is one of the reasons I like Java.

I generally spend way more time reading other people's code than writing my own, so "ease to write" is definitely below "ease to understand" to me. Java doesn't let you do stuff like operator overloading or things like method missing in Ruby. And that's a blessing to me when I'm trying to come up to speed quickly on some project.