lurklurk

Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

“giving up against the endless weight of capitalism”

We just call it "having a job" nowadays

It's like 5 lines of trivial code

Hello World

30 minutes of boilerplate

writing imports

$ cat <<EOF > Hello.java
public class Hello {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
  }
}
EOF
$ java Hello.java
Hello world!

ok