As a java developer I would challenge you to a code golf session. You supply two problems which demonstrate the conciseness of your preferred language and I'll supply two problems which demonstrate the conciseness of Java. Then we'll see which language can implement solutions in the least amount of lines or semicolons.
I prefer to use number of words, because I used to believe haskell and alia were shorter than a corresponding imperative program, but it turned out it just took up more horizontal space, and was roughly comparable in this metric.
