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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you... by dragonwriter on Saturday July 25, 2015 @02:42PM (#9948535)
> I think that calling something verbose and unreadable is an oxymoron.

Verbose and unreadable are not contradictory descriptions. In fact, they are more complementary descriptions -- there is a reason that in natural languages one of the most frequent recommendations for clear and readable writing is to be concise.

Excess verbosity is bad for readability.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you... by mahmoudimus on Saturday July 25, 2015 @03:54PM (#9948771)
Indeed, but it could be argued that excess verbosity might be better for long-term maintainability. Not that I'm defending the topic at hand here: XML as a configuration language.
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