[chrisbroadfoot]

> Explicitness and non-magicness are extremely valued in that environment.

This is not my experience with Java programs.

Enterprise Java programs often have many layers of magic abstraction, like Aspect-Oriented Programming, dependency injection, IOC.

Furthermore, people love using configuration files over code to determine program behaviour (see servlet configs, etc).

[mahmoudimus]

If you had said this comment 5 years ago, I would agree. I think you should take a look into today's Java development environment. It's world class, and light-years ahead of anything else out there.

[chrisbroadfoot]

Good to hear. I haven't programmed in Java in about that much time :)