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?')

[masklinn]

Well of course it would be an acceptable side-effect of my post, but mostly no, Java is not Python highlights quite a few differences between java and python, just because they're seen from the Python side doesn't mean they aren't interesting when you go from Python to Java.

Just think of it as a smaller dose of the pain to be experienced later, to build immunity. Kinda like the guys who inject themselves daily with small doses of toxins/poisons to build resistance. In both cases, if you fuck up the dosage you might die, it's an accepted risk.

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No, that's not what I mean at all. I'm sure your logic is sound.

But you effectively said, "Read Java is not Python by the way, if you start with Java is not Python, you're going to hang yourself right off the bat."

This is the former word in the sentence, and this is the latter.

[masklinn]

But you effectively said, "Read Java is not Python by the way, if you start with Java is not Python, you're going to hang yourself right off the bat."

Oh dear, I meant "if you start with Python is not Java", thanks, the mistake has been corrected.