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What a load of hooey.

Quite correct. Unfortunately, imperative languages without platform-level support for singletons will constantly find themselves encouraging the use of static. Obviously it should be minimized, but no one ever seems to be able to get rid of it entirely. This is part of why Scala is so awesome: it gives you all the benefits of static without the rampant downsides. In fact, it makes it easy to avoid statics altogether (by relying more on local, immutable state).

Will static disappear eventually? Oh yeah. But I doubt that it's going anywhere any time soon.

@daniel I don't see why it cannot be eliminated completely. IoC containers like Spring or Guice take service location trump it with using the container.