> That Java makes you repeat yourself is not controversial. That being averse to this means you dislike thought is a somewhat bizarre position to hold.
The English language makes you repeat yourself. I don't see it as a bottleneck. I've never considered <speed of typing> a bottleneck to programming. possibly when programming some assembly routines. But if you're typing too much, you're probably repeating yourself too much, which means you're doing something wrong.
Things that can be libraries in other languages end up being "design patterns" in Java. It's just not flexible enouth, both Ruby and Haskell are more flexible than it. Both in different ways.
In Java, I type too much every time I have to deal with the fact int and Integer are two different types. That's a design flaw in Java, not in anything I've ever written using Java. And that's just a trivial example off the top of my head.
The English language makes you repeat yourself. I don't see it as a bottleneck. I've never considered <speed of typing> a bottleneck to programming. possibly when programming some assembly routines. But if you're typing too much, you're probably repeating yourself too much, which means you're doing something wrong.