[ale] good website for novice learning Java ?

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

> But, can Python be a substitute for Java and is it functionally as complete,

Yes.  Java can be faster, but in many cases it doesn't make
a difference (for example, in most desktop applications
the vast majority of a program's time is spent waiting for
the user to do something, so performance is very often a
non-issue).

> and if yes to these....why has it not
> basically surplanted Java  ?

Because Sun spends billions of dollars hyping Java, whereas
Python has to live or die on its merits alone. Given that
discrepancy, Python is doing very well for itself.

-- JK