Why was constness removed from Java and C#?

Question

I know this has been discussed many times, but I am not sure I really understand why Java and C# designers chose to omit this feature from these languages. I am not int

Answer 1

Java have its own version of const; final. Joshua Bloch describes in his Effective Java how you effectively use the final keyword. (btw, const is a reserved keyword in Java, for future discrepancies)