Re: improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also?

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On related issue

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~eddie/java.considered.fancy.html
 
"Java has been adopted as an introductory language 
by several teaching institutions, including our own, 
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The 
usual motivation seems to be, among other things, static 
typing for catching errors early, object-orientation and the 
motivational value of a language so closely connected 
to the Web. Also, Java seems to be selected on basis 
of its alleged "simplicity", a conception mostly due 
to its automatic storage management and abstract references. 
These factors do contribute to inhibit the haywire achievable i
n low-level languages, but the fact that they have
been removed does not mean that the real problems have been handled."