Are static useful?

[Robert Fraser]

renoX wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Maybe some will find this blog useful: the author thinks that language 
> would be better without statics:
> 
> http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2008/02/cutting-out-static.html
> 
> Regards,
> renoX

I'm not sure what he means by "static" in that article, but I guess he 
means any global state ("static" variables in Java, which he seems to be 
referring to, are jut namespaced global variables).

I agree that global variables have issues, but to answer the question in 
your title, they ARE useful (certainly the "singleton pattern" is not an 
improvement).