Language Design: Popular, but Wrong

1. static members
2. properties
3. <> for generics (see)
4. [] for arrays (see)
5. Type ident instead of ident: Type (see)
6. having if-then-else and switch/case and a ternary operator (see)
7. separate namespaces for methods and fields
8. having both modifiers and annotations (see)
9. method overloading
10. namespace declarations doubling as imports
11. special syntax for casting
12. using cast syntax for things that are not casts
13. requiring () for methods without parameters