[GyrosOfWar]

Modern C# and C++ both have facilities that make the languages much more concise (lambdas in combination with std::algorithm resp. LINQ, type inference and the like). Java 8 will also have some of that and I can see it becoming a much nicer language to work with because of those changes.

[pnathan]

Quite correct. But historically - and worse, codebases with a Standard Style that is perhaps older - these languages trend verbose.

IME, I've tried to make super concise modern C#, and it simply isn't concise compared to Haskell or even Python. YMMV, of course.