Yesterday, I took a swipe at Java, saying that the complexity of the language itself leads to enterprisey results. Today, I see that Gordon Weakliem has turned up a hilarious piece of contributing evidence:

Java in a Nutshell: 1264 pages.

I'll quote Matt Croyden, who has this to say about it:

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, your programming language just might be complicated when you have trouble telling the difference between its Nutshell book and a telephone book.

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