[Tutor] Java: (and python ?) nearer measles than coffee

[Klaus Ramelow]

Sometimes I have also some  - or more - problems trying digesting python
and feeling totally blocked.

My programming experience (beginning at the card-reader era)
main-frame, mini and micro :
Bit / Byte / Word system-programming via switch-console followed by
Assembler and commercial software using Basic, Cobol, Pascal and SQL.

Mnemonic programming-language - in my understanding - can only be
consisting of expressions near the human language.
The best example for writing non-system-programms are
Basic, Cobol (thanks to Alan) and SQL(especially Informix-SQL as full 
language - not only for DB).
Why should I waste time in learning a "language" like Java (or more
positive: python) ?
Nevertheless this Tutor Digest is most helpful, the number of questions
/ problems show:
some more people are looking for a mnemonic-language which should
optimized cross-compile to something with multiplatform-capability
like Java.
Please let me know, if I am entirely wrong.

Klaus Ramelow