I have never used SVN or Git (I use Hg at home and VSS at work), so I can't say there. What I can say is that I didn't realize how painful Java was for me unti

I have never used SVN or Git (I use Hg at home and VSS at work), so I can't say there. What I can say is that I didn't realize how painful Java was for me until I started learning Python. That may be a closer analogy, though still not perfect.