D vs Java as a first programming language

[Tim M]

I like two programming languages a lot: D and Jade. I dont prefer one of  
the other I think they each are very good depending on what you are trying  
to do. I think D is not that easy to start with but I think java is much  
worse. Have you ever tried Jade. I recently started jadeprogramming.com  
back in June for people like you. It doesnt have much but it has one  
tutorial vid on there at the moment. An example easy to understand jade  
code:

vars
    s : String;
begin
    read s;
    write 'You entered: ' & s;
end;



PS dont confuse Jade with the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework. The jade  
im talking about is this  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE_(programming_language).