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hungh3 on Sept 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down jo...

Absolutely agree. Language is the medium, not the expression. What matters is how we use it to express our ideas.

Java is too verbose? So what's Eclipse for? Sometimes, a bit too verbose can be good in terms of maintenance and readability.

weavejester on Sept 30, 2010 [–]

Well, it's more that Java lacks certain functionality that's intrinsic to more sophisticated languages. It's often harder to express ideas in Java because it has a more limited vocabulary (to stretch an analogy).

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