Flutterby™! :

Flutterby has been verbose the past few days 'cause I'm ankle deep (and standing on my head) in learning Java and need to take frequent breaks to assimilate stuff. At this point I think I've got a handle on the language, but I'm still trying to understand the lore that'll open up why things are implemented in a certain way. That was the big step in learning Perl. It's frustrating to have a language that's so C/C++ like in some ways, but it's obvious that the C/C++ way of doing things isn't the way the designers meant the language to be used, and the book authors have deliberately dumbed down their text so I can't see, for instance, the "right" way to do specialized text parsing, or whether in lacking a CPAN like structure using external modules for software to be installed on someone else's server is a viable idea. The struggle continues.