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Re: Pure Lazyness
by Richard Dale on Tuesday 21/Sep/2004, @18:53

Yes, java doesn't seem to have been influenced by Smalltalk because maybe James Gosling didn't know anything much about it. Which is a shame - he wouldn't have come up with static methods instead of proper class methods with dynamic despatch. And classes would have been objects that you send a 'new' message to create an instance. That design error has been carried through to C# - I really don't like static methods.

"Resist the urge to overuse static methods.":

http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2004_09/magazine/columns/proshop/

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