Why Java is Not Pure OOP

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The Question

Why is Java not considered a pure object-oriented programming language?

What a Strong Answer Covers

• primitive types are not objects
• static members accessed without objects
• autoboxing doesn't fully fix it
• pure OOP requires everything to be an object

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