[btmcnellis]

> Its type system was so lame that it gave rise to most of the "Gang of Four" patterns, most of which are just workarounds for Java- not some first order principles of programming.

Java wasn't released until after the first edition of Gang of Four. C++ is probably what you should be pointing the finger at.

[ragnese]

Totally right, I apologize. I think my point still stands if we replace Java with C++ (and I still think Java was worse than C++ for static typing's reputation).

[michaelnik]

Gosling designed Java with a C/C++-style syntax that system and application programmers would find familiar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)]

[vips7L]

Smalltalk too.