[almogo]

I agree specifically, but disagree generally.

As we become more and more acquainted with programming, a lot of what we do why we do it is incoherent nonsense to a beginner, but important nonetheless.

The limit is actually your time and effort. But nobody likes to write optimal assembly by hand, the balance has to be struck somewhere.

[boxed]

But there is nothing important or useful in all that Java garbage. You could write entire programs without classes! That's the class, the static, AND the final keywords.

You can't really escape String[], which imo is fine. It's better than argv/argc in C at least.