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Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE by the_doctah on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:23AM (#32852498)
Everything is literally a descendant of Object...
Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE by chao- on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:37AM (#32853676)
Yes, and in Java, capital-O Object is primarily used as a class, not as an object that you work with directly!

Alan Kay himself said he regrets coining the term as "object" oriented, and wishes he had emphasized "messages":

https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging

Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE by cies on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:53AM (#32853915)
And Object, in this case (big O), is the name of a class.

Not everything is an object, as someone said, there are also primitives.

There are many other "things" in Java that are not objects (operators, statements, etc.).

Kotlin does set some of this straight. Everything inherits (indirectly) from the Any class. And primitives do not exist in Kotlin (as in Ruby or Smalltalk).

Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE by ghosty141 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:18AM (#32853354)
Havent used Java for ages but are ints amd double for example really objects? Iirc they are primitives
Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE by mindcrime on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:51AM (#32853875)
Those types exist as both classes and primitive types. Eg, "double" (primitive) vs "Double" (class which inherits from Object).