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>
> We have recently come under pressure to change our initial teaching
> language for CS1 from Ada 95 to Java.
A language called Blue was developed at Monash University
specifically for teaching OO programming.
Perhaps you could ask the authors of Blue why they didn't use Java.
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/blue/
Cheers
Geoff