Comment by lmm

> I would also not blame Java for the worst of OO, all of that would have happened without it. There were so many OO culture languages pretending to that throne. Java got there first because of the aforementioned VM advantage, but the core concepts are things academia was offering and the industry wanted in non-Ada languages.

Really? Were there other major contenders that went as far as the public class MyApp { public static void main( nonsense?