mmm.. python can give you extremely elegant code.. i donno.. i just don't find programming in java fun.. so i wouldn't recommend it to anyone.. i love looking at nice codes, and java isn't one of those

so i recommend dive deeply into python, learn that one, and it'll be easy to change
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