Use Java's packages and static imports to organize top-level types and simplify access to their static members.

Object Pascal has per-unit initialization and finalization (units being like Java packages), but not per-class initialization. You can easily initialize all of the class variables (static ...

Gilad makes the case that static, that staple of C++, C#/VB.NET, and Java, does not belong: Most imperative languages have some notion of static variable. This is unfortunate, since static ...