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Agree, in Java (and any other language) the main culprit is not the complexity that can eventually be abstracted away, but the trivial noise that cannot be abstracted at all: verbose class definitions, clumsy anonymous functions prior to SE8 (functors), lack of implicit interfaces, lack of infix method call notation, generic type erasure, lack of basic type inference, lack of continuations etc.

My point was that limited expression means of a language are sometimes compounded by inability of a programmer to make a good use of the expression means already available to them.

I also understand the desire for more a expressive language, I am a programmer after all. One has to keep in mind, however, that the more expressive a language is the harder it is on the reader. Java code is trivial for a reader to follow (if not for the excessive verbosity sometimes covering up the true intent); much of Scala code base, on the other hand, is not that trivial to comprehend due to the high expressiveness of the language.