[drylight]

A Java developer complaining about Ruby's supposed verbosity? What's the world coming to?! When one looks at Java code, 90% of it is just syntactic sugar, which doesn't add much to the actual working code. One has to filter through large amounts of white noise to get to the crux of the code. Not so with Ruby (and many other languages).

[Twisol]

This is exactly what the original article was saying. ;) The languages take very different mindsets though, so if someone is actually happy with Java, then it's very possible that they don't have (or want) the right mindset for using Ruby.

[axod]

Not really.

"public static final" is not particularly verbose. It's a one time upfront cost which defines a few flags. It's error free, since a typo in any of those keywords will be picked up.

It can also be automated easily etc.

But Ruby using 'end' etc instead of curly braces, that's going to add up to a lot of verbosity.