The practice of starting with Java's primitive types, in many textbooks on OO programming using Java, obfuscates, rather than illustrates, the OO paradigm. Why should one start a text focusing on teaching the OO paradigm by featuring the part of Java that is not object-oriented? Why, in a programming language that has continued the evolutionary trend toward abstraction by eliminating pointer types, should a student encounter at the outset the machine representations 'int', 'byte', 'long', 'float', and 'double' the OO paradigm is supposed to be hiding?
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