"object oriented" can mean a wide variety of things. java isn't necessarily more object-oriented than other options. generally, i think when people say "oo",

"object oriented" can mean a wide variety of things. java isn't necessarily more object-oriented than other options. generally, i think when people say "oo", they're really just referring to nominal subtyping; probably due to the language's ubiquity (as well as c++ and c#). this nominal subtyping gives rise to the hierarchical taxonomies of object-classes that are a quintessential characteristic of java, c# and friends.