On 6/5/13 4:01 PM, Kapps wrote:
Anders Hejlsberg talks about why they decided to use final by default in C# at http://www.artima.com/intv/nonvirtualP.html. See the Non-Virtual is the Default section. They do this *because* they saw the drawbacks of Java's virtual by default and were able to learn from it.
This is a solid piece of evidence. Andrei