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update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

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If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

Prior answer revision is removed since it no longer applies, it is available in answer history:

If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

Prior answer revision is removed since it no longer applies, it is available in answer history:

If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

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update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

Prior answer revision is removed since it no longer applies, it is available in answer history:

If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

Prior answer revision is removed since it no longer applies, it is available in answer history:

If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

update question has been edited and reopened and proposed "draft" has been posted as an answer there:

Prior answer revision is removed since it no longer applies, it is available in answer history:

If the question would be reopened, I'd probably write an answer like below.

#TL;DR

In Java, the reason of public static void main(String[] args) is that

  1. Gosling wanted
  2. the code written by someone experienced in C (not in Java)
  3. to be executed by someone used to running PostScript on NeWS

 
...How The JVM Spec Came To Be...

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