[barrkel]

The fact that C# came out with 36% more lines than Java would make me doubt much extrapolation about productivity from these numbers. You can do a token for token substitution of Java and end up with close to compilable C# code; there are only a handful of things Java has that C# doesn't, while C# has many more abstraction tools.

[Veedrac]

This is just because Java is using `readline` and C# is reimplementing it AFAICT.

[zatkin]

I'm willing to bet that most of the Java code could be made shorter with the use of more functional style code in Java 1.8 (which might be why he labeled it "Java 1.7")

[edgyswingset]

Yep. Things like this:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/cs/core.cs#L272

Could easily be turned into one line ... not that any sane person would want to, though.