Java on mac

[peanut]

thank you , I will try another languages as well, do you have any tips on what languages I should check out?

[wtd]

I'm a big fan of Ruby, and that certainly has gotten a lot of attention lately. Blocks alone would be quite an eye-opener.

A fucntional language would also provide quite the contrast to Java and expose you to a lot of new concepts. I firmly believe, by the way, that learning other languages, even if you eventually go back to something like Java, will make you a better programmer and benefit you regardless of the language you end up using most of the time.

For fucntional programming languages, Haskell is really interesting, but you would probably find that O'Caml offers a more gentle introduction.

[wtd]

Oh, additionally... you should check out Scala (http://scala.epfl.ch). It permits use of java's vast libraries, and incorporates a lot of neat features.