Hi all, I've never programmed Java. I started directly in C, then C++ and now using Python, mainly because its modules, because I found very hard to use and find external libraries to do the same as Python (i.e. to read an URL o send an email), and soften these libraries on C are not free or depending on an specific compiler (aka VC version x).
The lack in Python is only speed, and I don't know what you better get from Java, and may be I loss all those usefull libraries. There's also a said "Student of many, teacher of nothing" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list