I think it is useful to be able to catagorise languages, so that the appropriate language is used in a given environment, however I am unhappy with the fact that a language is often seen as inferior because it does not fall into a particular catagory, especitally when such catagories are not directly appropriate to a language itself. You yourself made the point that java is not a pure OO language (I had always considered it to be, I am still thinking about your idea). The catagorisation that is often made are made not to help in evaluation but to put down languages and programmers who use those languages (it was used in that very context in the node you replied to) It is in this context I object.

The title was a little provocative, however I think the subject matter of the node is also provoative. I have updated the subject so it better reflects the content. I was not meaning to be offensive or cause any injustices just vent an long held opinion.

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Zigster