Programming language verbosity
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When people discuss "language X vs. language Y", one of the key factors under discussion is "verbosity": "... but Java is just so verbose!" Put another way, Java apparently has a very high level of redundancy.
One measure of redundancy in a signal is its compression ratio. This is easily computed by comparing the size of code when uncompressed to its size when compressed, with, say, gzip.
I tried this out on each language's most popular three projects on GitHub. The results of this are charted below.
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