Currently I'm a student and question of what kind of a programmer I'm is wide open. I
am currently working on a project that has to do with the GC and the JIT compiler for a language runtime. I plan to use my (remaining) student years to gain as broad a programming experience as I possibly can, not because I wish to be good at everything but so that I don't miss anything out. The whole point of this post was to find out that since virtually everyone finds Python so bouhaha and I don't, am I doing something wrong?
Secondly I don't mean to criticize Java. By calling it a toy language, I was simply referring to the fact that Java tends to make writing bad code difficult, and in doing this takes away some of the flexibility and power that you tend to associate with other languages.
I mean
while (str++)
str = (str) + 1;
becomes
for (int i = 0; i < sb.length (); i++)
sb.setCharAt (i, sb.charAt (i) + 1); // and relevant casting
While the above piece of Java code can be improved and condensed (for instance, by calling getChars and iterating through them* and then creating a new String - would be slow however), I think you get the point.