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Re:PG on Java - comments from 2001 by chrisaycock on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:02PM (#2004787)
Java: write 10 lines where 1 would do.
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Re:PG on Java - comments from 2001 by redthrowaway on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:16PM (#2004848)
Only compared to something like Python. It's slightly more verbose than C++, but not overly longer, on a LOC basis.
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Re:PG on Java - comments from 2001 by steveklabnik on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:23PM (#2004885)
Maybe on a purely syntactical level, but culturally, Java seems to embrace verbosity.

You don't see C++ programmers making thousand-line XML-based build files, or creating FactorySingletonFactoryVisitors.

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Re:PG on Java - comments from 2001 by haploid on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:47PM (#2004970)
Actually, yes you do. The original GoF was written with C++ in mind. Plenty of enterprise C++ code embraces heavy use of design patterns.
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