> C, Basic, Pascal, etc. are all missing inheritance and generics, are they similarly unorthodox and difficult? yes, they are unorthodox for this specific nich

> C, Basic, Pascal, etc. are all missing inheritance and generics, are they similarly unorthodox and difficult? yes, they are unorthodox for this specific niche: enterprise devs, most languages have OOP and most devs know it. > Java, C#, and arguably C++ have taken a kitchen-sink and grafted any and all constructs found in other languages so long as they look remotely useful. I disagree with you, Java approach was very conservative, and original goal was to have simplified OOP. If you have specific examples: we can discuss.