[geeks] Java as a first language

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> For web applications most people use some scripting stuff. Skip Perl. It
> is a nightmare. Perl code is write once, read never code. PHP is common
> but seems to have some security problems. There are also python and
> ruby, but I don't know these.

 From my little experience with Python, I can verify that it is pretty 
slick.  It's designed to be extremely man-readable.

Peace...  Sridhar