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Refactoring Java?

In the spirit of If you could get rid of one thing from Java..., if you could, what one thing about Java would you "fix"? This question is as inclusive as you want to make it. You want Java "open-sourced"? Or you'd like generics implemented "properly" instead of via type erasure? Or you want Sun to fix the insane version numbering scheme for Java? Share it here.

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." --Joseph Joubert

If you could get rid of one thing from Java...?

In the spirit of If I could add one thing to Java, I'd like to know what one thing you would take out of Java, if you had the chance. Not add, extend, tweak, exchange, or change but just what you would get rid of completely.

"You know you've achieved perfection in design,
  not when you have nothing more to add,
  but when you have nothing more to take away." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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