It’s probably because in order to post in the Java ng he has to be 10x as verbose as in the Smalltalk ng.
He probably has to declare himself, cast himself, wrap himself in a try catch block, bubble up any exceptions, use some external iterators, implement some interfaces, and wrap up his primitives in real objects. Maybe after auto-boxing and generics are supported, he’ll only have to post 7 or 8x as often.
Don’t worry James, we appreciate and understand your terseness over here. ;-)