> [1] Every couple of years, I decide to learn Java, and start going through > a book -- usually the same book. It doesn't go long before I say to my > self, "Gosh, why would I ever want to program this language, anyway?"
I've taught myself Java three times(*), first from the O'Reilly Nutshell book and then from their 'Learning Java' book (very good, I recommend it) and now from 'JSP for Dummies' - which is not really Java but uses it a lot... Unfortunately I have to read a lot of Java at work and very occasionally actually program in it, but I do not like it at all. But I prefer it to either COBOL or Perl... (*)I did the same with SmallTalk but I quite liked it, it just was too big a paradigm shift in style from Lisp, Object Pascal and C++ first time around. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
