[Aperocky]

> a lambda that maps to the Runnable interface _is_ a first class object.

A simple python function also is. Just much simpler. On principal, every turing complete language can do everything that you make it do, including emulating concepts that are more natural in other languages - you can write OOP in C if you want to build the whole scaffold to support it.

I also happen to know quite a number of languages, up to 10 if we talk about everything I've developed something in, but more like 5~ if we talk about ones that I'm familiar with, this includes java and python. imo programming should be language agnostic - don't try to remember the syntax, all of it is available in 10 second via googling, but remember data structures that are common across all languages and specific useful patterns and choose the right one for the job.

Both python and java have their own advantages, and own ways of doing things. But writing python like classic OOP java results in hot garbage. It defeats the purpose of using python, should just use Java if one want to emulate all of that polymorphism and OOP patterns, at least the language is built for it.