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The simplicity-to-verbosity pipeline of programming languages in one perfect SpongeBob progression: Python's print - clean, simple, happy SpongeBob energy. Just works! C++'s cout - slightly more complex with those weird << operators, but still manageable. SpongeBob's starting to feel the strain. And then there's Java's System.out.println - the final boss of verbosity that makes you question your life choices. Poor SpongeBob looks like he's having an existential crisis just typing it out. The real nightmare isn't the syntax - it's that someone at Oracle decided "Hey, let's make developers type 21 characters where 5 would do!"