1. C, D and Pascal dont have garbage collection.
2. An argument can be made for starting with dynamically typed languages before moving to static typing.
> 2. An argument can be made for starting with dynamically typed languages before moving to static typing.
As much as I like static typing, I agree that showing people run-time errors seems to do a better job of teaching than letting them know ahead of time via the compiler that their code will likely blow up.
