So we should start to teach ppl to fly planes by first teaching them to ride a bike? Riding a bike will not help you fly. Programming isn't hard but if "public

So we should start to teach ppl to fly planes by first teaching them to ride a bike? Riding a bike will not help you fly. Programming isn't hard but if "public static..." melts your mind, software may not be for you. Also the classic file read idiom (the C one) teaches some of the most basic things every programmer should undertand: . file encoding (which you ignore) . buffer sizes . error handling (likely 80-90% of production code) Your python example ignores these basic instructive points. Why is there no "String str=String.read(file)"? Because it's seldom useful in production (see points above).