Les Orchard (0xDECAFBAD) has hacked together a personal web proxy in Python. He’s having fun working in a language that he hasn’t spent a lot of time in. I’ve recently had similar fun romping in Perl and C#. I’ve always used Perl for a few things around the *nix boxes, but nothing like the little wapblog script I hacked up the other day. Similarly, I’ve been partying in C#, which seems (java) so (java) errily (java) familiar, but is just different enough to feel new. I will give C# and .NET props for taking a good base and improving upon it. From what I’ve been reading in the java.blog community, Java is trying to catch up to C# in some areas.
And while I’m on the topic of Java, I’m still not over learning Java 1.0/1.1/AWT just to find out that EVERYTHING was different for 1.2+/Swing. I’m still a bit bitter about that, though I don’t usually hold a grudge. I’m almost over it now. Okay, I’m overreacting. I was young and impressionable back then, and the switch from AWT to Swing was a big deal when I was learning Java.