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ADA?

No, Ada. It's a proper name, nor an acronym (I'd hate to program in the Americans with Disabilities Act) -- Ironically the one time that casing is important (well, besides string internals).

how quaint~!

quaint [kweynt] adjective

having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house. strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way: a quaint sense of humor. skillfully or cleverly made. Obsolete. wise; skilled.

Hm, which definition do you mean? In the case of:
1. Yes, strong-typing with an aim towards static analysis is very old-fashioned compared to the newfangled web/scripting languages.
2. A language designed with tangible goals like maintainability, large-systems design, and early detection of errors is quite unusual.
3. I agree.
4. Again, I agree.

(just kidding)

Awww.. :(
;)

But seriously, the new 2012 standard is nice: we got some fine tuning of TASK-constructs, contracts (pre- & post-conditions, along w/ type invariants), quantified expressions (for all and for some), conditionals (if X in positive then 128.0 / X else 0.0) [same w/ case, definite plus for having CASE-coverage (since Ada83)], some new containers.

I can get you some links if you're interested.