Two retired professors from the Computer Science Department of New York University in the United States published an article with the title "Computer Science Education: Where Are Tomorrow’s Software Engineers Coming From?" In the article, they strongly criticized New York University and other universities for failing to teach students pure programming languages such as C, C++, Lisp, and ADA.
"The skills that students gain from current educational practices are insufficient to meet the demands of today's software industry (especially in terms of security and safety-related purposes). More unfortunately, by aligning too closely with external industry needs, we have trained many software engineers who are easily replaceable."
Of particular note, the article criticizes Java under the subheading "The Many Flaws of Java as a First Programming Language":