Flutterby™! : Verbosity Difference

The Verbosity Difference, on OOP and programming language verbosity:

The problem is that the marginal cost of adding a new class is greater than the marginal cost of extending an existing class. If it was easier to make a new class, we would have done so. But we would also have made a new class if it was harder to add methods to an existing class, because then the trade-off would have been different. In other words, what matters is the difference in verbosity between the “right way” and the “wrong way”, not the absolute level of verbosity.