[Tanjreeve]

That's going to be quite a loaded metric considering how verbose Java is.

[kaba0]

Java is at most longer than “short program” by a small constant factor, and that is mostly around project initialization.

Also, I have never really understood it — c++ is not the shortest thing either with duplicating headers/implementations, go’s error handling deserves a whole discussion in terms of verbosity yet these languages are not considered repetitive.

[wglb]

Well as a former cobol programmer, I would argue that it is no less verbose than pretty much any language.