Getters / Setters in Java VS Ruby

Accessor methods let you “set” or “get” instance variables belonging to an object. Most Java programmers are introduced to getters and setters very early in their OOP education.  Lines of code might not be a reliable metric to compare programming languages but nevertheless below is a simple example for creating getters and setters in both Java and Ruby :

Java ->

public class Getset
{
    private int value;

    public void setValue(int n)
    {
        value = n;   
    }

    public int getValue()
    {
        return value;   
    }
}

Ruby->

class Getset
	attr_accessor :value
end