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Thoughts on Language Design

Computers with multiple processors are becoming more and more common. We need programming languages that support the use of multiple threads of control. [...] In such a context, the organizing principles of structured programming may not always be appropriate. I'm not talking about avoiding goto. (Java has no goto statement.) I'm talking about sequencing, if-then-else, and loops.

For the last two hours, under the heading of object-oriented, encapsulated code without global variables, I have been reading spaghetti code. Every class method I look at involves a few private instance variables whose lifetimes are as long as the object itself. Ok, the scope is limited to the class methods only, but for a class of a certain size, how is this any different from global variables?

PS: No, they are not static member fields. In general, I have nothing against singletons.