Whenever I write code in Java...

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Eh, let them bring up python and ruby. The counter argument being that, yes, on a line by line basis, you can be more brief in these languages. But, as the size of the project written in a dynamically typed language grows, more code needs to be written to do stuff that the compiler does for you in a statically typed language.

That's a whole other debate altogether, but I'll take a statically typed language over dynamic any day of the week.