Ex-Delphi developer (10 years) - still do some maintenance...
The verbosity is an indicator that it does not require a huge cliff of learning to understand the syntax. (It also means the compiler can absolutely fly, which Delphi did.)
I like the conciseness of later language structures, but they all need to be learnt in order to read or write in them.
The only solution to the verbosity of Delphi was to increase your typing speed or use an IDE add-in that provided shortcuts :)
So I suppose my argument is that the syntax is not needlessly verbose. The verbosity helped the speed of compilation by the simplicity of its grammar, and the learnability of the language is quite speedy as a result of fewer grammatical options.
The verbosity is an indicator that it does not require a huge cliff of learning to understand the syntax. (It also means the compiler can absolutely fly, which Delphi did.)
I like the conciseness of later language structures, but they all need to be learnt in order to read or write in them.
The only solution to the verbosity of Delphi was to increase your typing speed or use an IDE add-in that provided shortcuts :)
So I suppose my argument is that the syntax is not needlessly verbose. The verbosity helped the speed of compilation by the simplicity of its grammar, and the learnability of the language is quite speedy as a result of fewer grammatical options.