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Re:Java Is Underhyped by dragonwriter on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:41AM (#26831708)
> Java created that hype to market itself. OOP all the things probably wouldn't have been a thing without it, for instance

“OOP all the things” predated (and led to) Java, it wasn’t a product of Java (C++, Objective-C, Object Pascal and, well, a bunch of other things from the late 1980s and early 1990s were where it got started.) Java was about a decade into it.

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by pydry on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:28AM (#26833035)
There's a big difference between "OOP is cool" (which Java didn't invent) and "OOP ALL of the things".
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Re:Java Is Underhyped by doctor_eval on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:18AM (#26842826)
But Java clearly didn’t “OOP all the things”, unlike earlier languages like Smalltalk. Java primitives are not objects (despite the fact that I often found myself wishing they were), and static methods are actually just functions. These days Java even supports first-class functions.

I know not everyone will agree with me, and that’s fine, but I always found Java to be far more pragmatic than, for example, C++, which well and truely predated Java.

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