[EdwardCoffin]

I've programmed in a couple of languages that one might consider verbose: Java and Common Lisp. The normal tools for both of those provide some form of name-completion. In fact, in Emacs+SLIME, I can do something like this: "(ge-in-ru", hit tab, and have it completed to "(get-internal-run-time". In any case, I consider the typing-out of stuff like that to be a minor part of programming anyway.

Edit: fixed stupid grammatical mistake

[Zak]

I don't think symbol name length is usually what people are complaining about when they call a language verbose. It's usually closer to the number of symbols required to write a program, and CL usually does pretty well on that metric.