Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to find people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a complex, real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet, and no other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already been a big [win] in academic circles, where it has taken the place of [Pascal] as the preferred tool for teaching the basics of good programming to the next generation of hackers.

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