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by qwertyuiop924 3576 days ago
Some of the are pretty long, but the worst of them (call-with-current-continuation most famously) usually have abbreviations (call/cc).

Java's evil isn't just it's long class names: It's also the language's general verbosity: in some cases, I'd say it approaches COBOL levels of verbose. The other evil is the import paths: Python got this one right. You don't want org.companyname.lang.java.org.net.project.net.classes.AbstractClassFactoryFactory.

That import path isn't as much of an exageration as you'd think: if Java had been invented a little earlier, it would have been banned from most computers as a criminal waste of inodes.