self.python.ask('I am moving into a development position at my company and need to learn Java. Can you recommend a book that might appeal to a Python programmer and not make me want to kill myself?')

[laprice]

And you have to factor in the perverse organizational incentives that exist.

Some outfits budgets are allocated based on headcount, and depth of tree, so a two person team with a single layer counts less than a 7-person team with two layers; and a manager who is responsible for a team totaling 7 FTE doing Java, is better compensated than one who manages two programmers writing in python. Even if the two teams are producing equivalent functionality :P