Python has been my favourite programming language for quite some time now. Referred to by some as a competitor to Perl, the epitome of terse obfuscation, Python is endearing for its readability, modularity and mix of imperative and object-oriented programming paradigms. So, what about Java? I have tried to learn Java several times, but I probably started the wrong way. It's no surprise then that Mr. Preprocessor's page on the language that I stumbled on would tickle my funny bone.