I did say "almost every" and not "every". :) Were there fast managed languages? Yes, a couple. Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self an

I did say "almost every" and not "every". :) Were there fast managed languages? Yes, a couple. Were there fast managed object-oriented languages? Yes, Self and a Smalltalk or two. Were there fast managed statically typed languages? Yes, SML and Haskell. Where there fast, managed, statically typed, and object-oriented languages? Not many. Maybe Eiffel, but that was shackled by DbC dogmatism and probably some amount of Eurocentricity. I don't think Ada had GC back then and if your complaint is that Java is too verbose, you sure as heck aren't gonna like Ada.