Well then I'll also take the opportunity to put in my 2 cts. In the past I've tried several times to master Java as I at that time understood it to be *the* hype wrt programming but never really succeeded in getting beyond "Hello world" :D. Also got bored with all the technicalities pretty much each time. Some time ago I discovered Python, immediately liked the spirit of the language and the community *a lot* and found myself practising with pleasure. I have no education/profession wrt programming; as I wanted to write a small application a few days ago after not programming for several months I succeeded in just a few hours without using any references, somehow Python is so "natural", at least to me, that your guess of what it should be is most of the time just exactly right. :).
A big thanks to all the people out there contributing to the language and/or this group, fantastic job! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
