Look at the answers people give in the search. It doesn't help that every time someone asks this they get a link to something like this: http://docs.sun.com/sou

Look at the answers people give in the search. It doesn't help that every time someone asks this they get a link to something like this: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html I'm surprised someone hasn't translated it into Klingon or Sanskrit yet. It's pure snobbery that makes people leave responses like this. This document falls into the further reading for enthusiasts category. Nobody should be linking to it as an introductory answer to the question. At least not if they want people to learn and stop asking the question eventually.