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On 8/6/10 21:29 , Kevin Wright wrote:

> The Scala spec is 111 lines shorter, a reduction of roughly 30%
>
> So I could, in one sense, claim that Scala is 30% simpler than
> Java. I just don't know if it's a particularly useful sense :)

It's not a "final" proof, but it's a very interesting datum indeed.
BTW, I'll be curious to learn how much it will grow in Java 7 (mainly
for closures) - as well as how much smaller was in Java 4 before generics.

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