I meant PL research as in programming language research. Not sure why my brain decided to put an & there.

>Does Java have verbose semantics? I think Java’s semantics are pretty neat and concise. Where’s the verbosity?

`FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition` and is a meme for a reason. That said I'm sure Java idioms written today is a lot more sane than they were around the time everyone decided to rewrite everything in Ruby. When I say Java here, I'm talking about an era of Java that probably no longer exists (the JVM also doesn't have 10 second pauses today either and is widely considered the best garbage collector ever built).