Any good and recent paper on python, C++ and Java and XML

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

David L wrote:
> I just got a book on Python and want to know how it stands compared to
> C++ and Java. 

Loads of references on http://www.python.org/doc/Comparisons.html
I've "converted" :-) several people by showing them Eric Raymond's 
"confession" on converting to Python 
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882) and Lutz Prechelt's 
"An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl 
for a Search/String-Processing Program"

Good luck,
Iwan